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Camera Setting For Backlit Moving Subjects
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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 685044" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">One problem when raising your exposure during post processing is it can add noise to an image. So it's better to aim for the correct exposure in camera. When your scene has water in it like this image, you might wind up with some blown highlights. That's because backlit subjects tend to have a very high dynamic range, and when you shoot with +0.07 or higher dialed in, the highlights get clipped. Cameras aren't able to capture both the highlights and the shadows that we see with our eyes. So either the highlights get blown or the shadows are a little too dark in backlit images. If you've ever heard of HDR, that's when a photographer will take a series of shots with various exposures (-2.0, 0.0, +2.0) then merge them together. But for moving subjects, HDR really wouldn't be an option.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 685044, member: 13196"] [FONT=verdana] [SIZE=2]One problem when raising your exposure during post processing is it can add noise to an image. So it's better to aim for the correct exposure in camera. When your scene has water in it like this image, you might wind up with some blown highlights. That's because backlit subjects tend to have a very high dynamic range, and when you shoot with +0.07 or higher dialed in, the highlights get clipped. Cameras aren't able to capture both the highlights and the shadows that we see with our eyes. So either the highlights get blown or the shadows are a little too dark in backlit images. If you've ever heard of HDR, that's when a photographer will take a series of shots with various exposures (-2.0, 0.0, +2.0) then merge them together. But for moving subjects, HDR really wouldn't be an option.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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