Re: [darktable-devel] Functionality of the highlights and shadows module

2013-11-01 Thread johannes hanika
heya, some stuff interleaved below: On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Moritz Moeller wrote: > On 1/11/13 12:55 PM, Robert William Hutton wrote: > > Sounds to me like what you really want to do is raise the gamma > > rather than raise the exposure. > > Gamma is a non-linear modification that has no

Re: [darktable-devel] Functionality of the highlights and shadows module

2013-11-01 Thread Moritz Moeller
On 1/11/13 12:55 PM, Robert William Hutton wrote: > Sounds to me like what you really want to do is raise the gamma > rather than raise the exposure. Gamma is a non-linear modification that has no equivalent in real world photography. Exposure is a well understood concept (multiplication with a f

Re: [darktable-devel] Functionality of the highlights and shadows module

2013-11-01 Thread Rob Z. Smith
-devel] Functionality of the highlights and shadows module On 01/11/13 11:23, Björn Sonnenschein wrote: > I think that one of the main purposes of the highlights/shadows module > is (at least i used to use RT's equivalent for that before I switched > to DT ) to recover highlights and

Re: [darktable-devel] Functionality of the highlights and shadows module

2013-11-01 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 01/11/13 11:23, Björn Sonnenschein wrote: > I think that one of the main purposes of the highlights/shadows module is (at > least i used to use RT's equivalent for > that before I switched to DT ) to recover highlights and shadows which were > clipped by using the exposure module. For > exampl