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Re: tank picture: overexposed upper leaves
Erik Olson wrote:
> CCD's have a significantly lower
> dynamic range than photographic film. Maybe it's easier to CONTROL a
> digital camera, but there is definitely a lot less information stored on
> those CCDs (especially if it's a 24-bit color image) than on the
> equivalent piece of celluloid.
I had exposure problems with both film an digital cameras. The problems
were considerably less using film and a fairly advanced camera than thay
were using a good but old digital camera.
> Anyway, to add my experience to this, I can often correct some of these
> problems by retouching (aka good old dodging & burning) the picture
> afterwards on the scan. I've seen some folks (like Olga Betts) use
> fill-in lights to add a little more to the areas that get shaded by the
> top light.
I tried to digitally correct the saturated parts of both scanned images
and digital photos. The saturated areas were pretty much
information-free, so there wasn't anything to recover. Excessively
bright (but not saturated) areas could be corrected. Just what is
"dodging and burning?".
I suspect that -- regardless of the photo media -- the solution probably
lies in better photography. I tried using incandescent flood lights to
fill in the shadows created by the aquarium lights, but got some
unnatural-looking effects and hard-to-avoid reflections off the glass.
I haven't tried using a filter yet and suspect, just as Elie thought,
that is wouldn't be worth the hassle.
Is there some other way to arrange fill-in lighting that is useful for
the casual amateur?
Roger Miller