Now you’ve exposed my linguistic flaws, I meant you had managed to tame the
curve alright :-)
I think I understand your system of expose to the right as I had to when using
the L1 and Olies, a lot (sic)
*a lot here refers to both ETTR and Using ;-)
I’m not a layer guy. Except that LR allows for some form of stealthy layering.
PS has always been so user-unfriendly to me …
OTT, the last garland you showed displays what I would say the signature of
JPEGs pushed to the acceptable limits i.e. dramatic change in the tones and
colours (greenish and yellowish). I should know as I’m ploughing my way through
the thousands of files we shot in SA, and as Alice mistakenly and inadvertently
shot some in JPEG mode when I had set her camera to RAF only … sometimes
resulting in disastrous collisions of tones between the two identical sensors
of our cameras … I’ll try to find where those giraffs are hidden and send a
sample to you when I do. Fairly disappointing!
Amities
Philippe
> Le 24 févr. 2019 à 00:06, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> On 2/23/2019 1:11 AM, Philippe wrote:
>> I like the way you underexposed them, a lot!
>
> I'm not sure how that sentence parses:
>
> "I like that you underexposed them a lot!"
> "I like a lot that you underexposed them!"
> Both.
> However it goes, I much appreciate it!!
>> Getting rich tones as a result.
>
> Howsomever, I didn't accomplish what you like through underexposure, except
> perhaps as a starting point. Although "Shoot to the Right" seems to have died
> as a phrase, and some folks have said it's wrong, I mostly shoot to retain
> highlights, let the shadows go where they may, and deal with them in post.
> That's more a direction than a rule.
>
> I'm still learning the GX9s My general starting point in sunlight has for
> many years, and many cameras, has been -2/3 EV. I was surprised to find on
> this day that I was using mostly -1, and as much as -2 2/3 EV to hold
> highlights. That last was unusual, though, with a small portion of brightly
> lit white flowers against a lot of dark background. I suppose I could use
> spot metering, but I'm very experienced with a display histogram, rough
> though it may be, and the EV adjust wheel.
>
> The notion that there's one "correct" exposure is not very solid, either.
> Take a look at these two articles by Ctein, and you may not take
> manufacturers' ISO ratings as gospel.
>
> https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/10/raw-is-not-raw.html
> https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/09/why-iso-isnt-iso.html
>
> Soooo, I'm interested in exposures that capture all the tonal values I want
> to keep m ore than whether it can capture them in the relationships to each
> other that I'll want in the finished image. Then again, some subjects have
> dynamic ranges far beyond what the camera can capture and Raw conversion
> software can recover. Then, I may just "fix" them. :-)
> <cid:part1.4F9304B2.E795E5D7@gmail.com>
>
>> And all very graphic.
>
> Rich tones and graphic qualities are largely a result of post exposure
> processing. One of our group in Ireland made and hung this grass circle on a
> tree on the Hill of Tara where other offerings to Brigit were hung. I knew
> the light and background were awful when I took it, but also knew I could get
> at how it looked/felt to us at the time.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/MPhotos/Misc/GrassOffering/GrassOffering.htm>
> It involved separate treatment of three different parts of the photo, as
> separate masked layers.
>
> This one from this group is complex in two ways. It's a focus stack, to get
> the great DoF of the bud. Then I lowered brightness and contrast of the
> background and blurred it, to get greater subject separation and lovely
> bokeh.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/MPhotos/Misc/HookedBud/HookedBud.htm>
>
> Another from this series. Darkening the background immediately moves focus to
> the plant, and makes the right edges look brighter. Nice image already, but I
> felt dramatic, and that drama further plays down the background.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/MPhotos/Misc/SucculentRose/SucculentRose.htm>
>
> This one is a four layer cake.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/MPhotos/Misc/SpringFlowers/SpringFlowers.htm>
>
>> Gives me ideas, thanks.
>
> That's Good! Have fun with them.
> Masked Moose
>
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