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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 371622" data-attributes="member: 9240">Man does not live by the histogram alone.&nbsp; There are two things you want to see - no wall on the left and no wall on the right.&nbsp; In the top set you have a right/whites wall, and on the bottom you have the wall on the left/blacks.&nbsp; Yes, there is still the small white spike, but that it minimized and as manageable as you can get.&nbsp; But, you've lost a ton of detail in the shadows.&nbsp; Raise your EV and you'll blow out your whites.&nbsp; So it's impossible to find one exposure that doesn't clip at one end or the other.And this is why you can't always just shoot one photo and fix everything in post!!You'll never be able to shoot directly at the sun and not blow out your highlights, but you can minimize the blown out area - at the cost of the shadow details.&nbsp; You'll need a 10 stop ND or better to even start thinking about calming down direct sunlight, and given that you don't have more than 9EV of dynamic range then you get sun and black - nothing else.&nbsp; Meaning, if the sun is in your shot, if you want anything else you'll need to merge multiple exposures - or leave a big white spot.&nbsp; There are plenty of ways to allow for a big white wash in your shot, but not when you structure the heck out of it &quot;HDR style&quot;.&nbsp; If you cannot get a histogram that has no loss of detail at both ends then you want multiple shots with the details faded to almost nothing at each end in at least one of them.&nbsp; That's basic HDR photography.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 371622, member: 9240"] Man does not live by the histogram alone. There are two things you want to see - no wall on the left and no wall on the right. In the top set you have a right/whites wall, and on the bottom you have the wall on the left/blacks. Yes, there is still the small white spike, but that it minimized and as manageable as you can get. [I]But[/I], you've lost a ton of detail in the shadows. Raise your EV and you'll blow out your whites. So it's [I]impossible[/I] to find one exposure that doesn't clip at one end or the other. [B][I]And this is why you can't always just shoot one photo and fix everything in post!![/I][/B] You'll never be able to shoot directly at the sun and not blow out your highlights, but you can minimize the blown out area - at the cost of the shadow details. You'll need a 10 stop ND or better to even start thinking about calming down direct sunlight, and given that you don't have more than 9EV of dynamic range then you get sun and black - nothing else. Meaning, if the sun is in your shot, if you want anything else you'll need to merge multiple exposures - or leave a big white spot. There are plenty of ways to allow for a big white wash in your shot, but not when you structure the heck out of it "HDR style". If you cannot get a histogram that has no loss of detail at both ends then you want multiple shots with the details faded to almost nothing at each end in at least one of them. That's [I]basic[/I] HDR photography. [/QUOTE]

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