Mixed Lighting Exposure Question

[Scott Murray]

Hello all! I'm pretty new to this whole gig and getting my feet under me with my new D5300. I was shooting yesterday and ran into a couple of situations where there was a huge dynamic range between the shadows and the bright sunlight. I set up the shot below and was pretty happy with the composition. I am pleased with the exposure on the building (it's green brass for reference), but I feel like the background is overexposed. Aside from HDR and bracketing the shot, is there any way to compensate for the huge difference in light?

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Ok what I see is that you have over exposed things to bring out the shadows. What you will find is that you are better to underexpose and keep you skies and then bring out the underexposed parts etc building as once you over expose and its white it is gone.

 

[Scott Murray]

Are you defining dynamic range as the ratio between the maximum and minimum measurable light intensity?

Because if you're not, I'm curious how you are.
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Nope I read into it.

 

[Horoscope Fish]

I am defining dynamic range as what we see and capture. The Dynamic range to me is more than what has been shown. as even if we are looking at shades of grey there are bits missing. And to claim its due to the DR then it makes me see that they know nothing about how DR works or even any colouration around them.

I've read this reply several times and it's still not making sense.
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[Scott Murray]

Scott are you saying that DR is only in color?

DR is the way you perceive colour or tones

 

[Horoscope Fish]

DR is the way you perceive colour or tones

*facepalm*

Yeaaaaaaaaahhh... I'm bowing out of this impending train wreck of a thread, but everyone else, please, continue in my absence...
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[Scott Murray]

That doesn't answer my question.

I don't know what you mean by "compare" but we measure DR in all cases by luminosity. And all digital images are monochrome, or shades of 1's and 0's if you will, to begin with and is what makes them "digital" in nature. Color is a function of the output device.

Dynamic range is what you see, it doesn't matter with 0-1's because your eyes will always see the same. And all I was comparing to is that monochrome has a basic DR compared to an RGB one. But then gain we only know what we know.

 

[Scott Murray]

*facepalm*

Yeaaaaaaaaahhh... I'm bowing out of this impending train wreck of a thread, but everyone else, please, continue in my absence...
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Hey fish not sure why you want out

Cameras vs. The Human Eye

 

[Scott Murray]

*facepalm*

Yeaaaaaaaaahhh... I'm bowing out of this impending train wreck of a thread, but everyone else, please, continue in my absence...
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[Scott Murray]

*facepalm*

Yeaaaaaaaaahhh... I'm bowing out of this impending train wreck of a thread, but everyone else, please, continue in my absence...
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OK I will admit as an artist I have always thought that the dynamic range involved alot more colours and not just simple tones but I will admit that I am wrong and it involves more than simple colours. But I still think the images are under exposed.
No need to bow out [MENTION=13090]Horoscope Fish[/MENTION] I was wrong.

 

[FastGlass]

I always thought Dynamic range was the range in which a camera can capture lights and darks within an image. HDR is just an assortment of images exposing the shadows, midtones, highlights the camera cannot capture with one shot. Not sure what color has to do with it. Not sure why you can't have an HDR in black and white.

 

[Digitalguy]

If the sky is blown out you can opt to replace the sky with another sky using compositing techniques if you own the appropriate software. Photoshop can do this easily if you are committed to finding a solution for this issue.