Dear Michael
Like Bisto icecream this might be possible but do you like the results?
A soft contrast curve must be soft-contrast in the areas you want at the expense of hard-contrast in the shadows and highlights. This will produce emphasis on those areas at the expense of the main part of the subject because high contrast is naturally more interesting than low contrast.
There is another alternative. Actually several.
Create a Raw process which maximizes what you want in the image. Now Create one or more additional RAW processes, using different settings, from the same file. Open these in PS and paint, using layers, the bits you want over the bits you don't want.
Another alternative is to take several bracketed exposures with the camera on a tripod and then combine the good bits.
Bob Croxford
On 2 Jun 2004, at 17:59, Michael Ting wrote:
Has anybody been able to successfully create a custom tone curve for the
1Ds? It seems that even little adjustments on the tone curve produces weird
looking, posterized images. This is definitely a whole different beast than
curves adjustment in Photoshop.
I'm trying to make a soft-contrast curve, so that I can still preserve detail when shooting on contrasty-natural light.
Thanks.
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