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Subject: [OM] Dynamic range of Provia 100F, was ... DSLRs
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:41:14 +0100
Winsor

Thanks for pointing out that wonderful tool.  You cannot invent pixels 
that are not there, but it is great for adjusting the 
foreground/background balance in the contre-jour photos that I take.  
It has done wonders for a digital shot that I took.

But here is a shot on Provia 100F; it is poorly composed, but the 
window framed the couple watching the sun go down on Galway Bay ("If 
you ever go across the see to Ireland").  I did not worry, when 
composing the shot, that the window and inside of the pub would be 
underexposed.  Using that wonderful tool, I have in one stroke 
increased the detail in that shadow.  Please ignore the resulting 
reflections on the inside of the window glass.

http://www.threeshoes.co.uk/Dy_range_Provia100F.htm

The slide was scanned on a Minolta Scan Elite 5400 at 16 bits, but the 
image file was reduced to 8 bits (80-odd Mb) before any adjustment, 
then reduced to 600 pixels in height using the Bicubic Sharper method.  
You can see that I have carried out no other sharpening.

How's that for dynamic range? ;-)

Chris

On 12 Aug 2004, at 22:02, Winsor Crosby wrote:

>
> I am sure that Moose will answer for himself, but the point I took was
> that his Photoshop actions on a single exposure. You might be able do
> the same thing from a single slide, but I doubt it would be as
> flexible. Two bracketed exposures of the same subject would improve
> things for both types of media.
>
> I am amazed at the versatility in CS of the new shadow/highlight tool
> to do something similar with a lot less work.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California
> USA
> On Aug 12, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
<|_:-)_|>

C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.

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