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 Posted: Tue Nov 12th, 2019 01:13
Robert



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Thank you Novicus, I woke this morning wondering if I had overcooked the contrast range in my attempt to convey the extremes of brightness between the patches of bright sunlight and the shaded areas.  You have reassured me!

The D800 seems to have an ability (in common with other later cameras) of making dark scenes appear bright, due to their amazing light gathering power.  In a way this makes it harder to separate light and dark, so one has to tweak things in post processing.  I also had to apply exposure compensation of -0.7 EV to stand any chance with the sky, even with the bracketing, which was in 0.3EV increments, even then I had to pull the highlights right back and further reduce them in curves, while pushing the mid range.

I have pencilled in another trip for Friday when the weather hopefully relents but given the cold wind and heavy rain, my expectation is most of the leaves will have gone.



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