![]() Setting your camera to ‘auto bracket exposure mode’ and using a remote release means that you don’t have to touch the camera between the two exposures, thereby ensuring the first and second exposures can be exactly aligned with the minimum of fuss. One or two stops either side of the meter-indicated exposure should cover most high-contrast situations. Take two exposures – one overexposing from the auto reading and the other underexposing from the auto reading. mount the camera securely on a sturdy tripod. To make the post-production easier we need to take a little care in the pre-production, i.e. The idea is to montage, or blend, the best of both worlds (the light and dark sides of the camera’s not-quite all-seeing eye). If we can’t fit all the goodies in one exposure, then we’ll just have to take two or more. A reflector that can fill the shadows of the Grand Canyon has yet to be made and diffusing the sun’s light is only going to happen if the clouds are prepared to play ball. For the landscape photographer there is no ‘quick fix’. Landscape photographers, however, have drawn the short straw when it comes to solving the contrast problem. Wedding photographers will deal with the problem of contrast by using fill flash to lower the subject contrast commercial photographers diffuse their own light source or use additional fill lighting and check for missing detail using the Histogram. You may be able to see the detail in those dark shadows and bright highlights when the sun is shining – but can your image sensor? Contrast in a scene is often a photographer’s worst enemy.Ĭontrast is a sneak thief that steals away the detail in the highlights or shadows (sometimes both). ![]() ![]() High Dynamic Range - HDR - In Photoshop Elements 8 TutorialĪdapted from " Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 Maximum Performance" by Mark GalerĬontrary to popular opinion, what you see is not always what you get. Download any Adobe product for a free 30 day trial.
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