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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 444021" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>And for the record, EXIF data is exactly what any "pro" would want to know when asked to review a shot. The rest is all experience and learning how to deal with light. You can't take a low contrast photo in high contrast lighting. Like I said, no magic bullets. No combination of camera settings would have given you what you think you would get from this shot. It's a solid capture that just needs to be processed properly. The only thing that <em>might</em> fix it automatically is some combination of Active D-lighting and a custom camera profile, but if you walked away from my last post thinking "holy crap, I have to do all that?!" then good luck figuring out how to get that to work consistently well in JPEG mode (it won't help you with RAW).</p><p></p><p>One thing you might want to try is going to spot metering for small birds in particular. In this case it would have blown out your background, but the nuthatch would have been fine. Like I said, you can't tone down high contrast in the camera, and I'd rather have a dark image where I can recover light information than one with blown out highlights that will stay white no matter what.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 444021, member: 9240"] And for the record, EXIF data is exactly what any "pro" would want to know when asked to review a shot. The rest is all experience and learning how to deal with light. You can't take a low contrast photo in high contrast lighting. Like I said, no magic bullets. No combination of camera settings would have given you what you think you would get from this shot. It's a solid capture that just needs to be processed properly. The only thing that [I]might[/I] fix it automatically is some combination of Active D-lighting and a custom camera profile, but if you walked away from my last post thinking "holy crap, I have to do all that?!" then good luck figuring out how to get that to work consistently well in JPEG mode (it won't help you with RAW). One thing you might want to try is going to spot metering for small birds in particular. In this case it would have blown out your background, but the nuthatch would have been fine. Like I said, you can't tone down high contrast in the camera, and I'd rather have a dark image where I can recover light information than one with blown out highlights that will stay white no matter what. [/QUOTE]
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