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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 255018" data-attributes="member: 9240">I'm with Geoff on the dynamic range performance of the D800.  Here's a shot I took a couple mornings ago as it came out of the camera, 30 second exposure at f/4...[ATTACH=full]69256[/ATTACH]Here's the same photo with a +5EV adjustment in Lightroom...[ATTACH=full]69257[/ATTACH]The amount of light captured by the sensor is amazing.  In the final product I can pull light from shadows here and keep dark areas as dark as I want them, giving almost an HDR appearance from a single photo...<img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3731/12118077595_4209ab50e2_h.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />If I have a high contrast image I can actually take the original exposure and make +/- 2EV copies and send them to HDR Efex Pro 2 if I want instead of trying to adjust the bright and dark spots.  Here's an original image SOOC and +/-2EV adjusted copies...[ATTACH=full]69264[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]69263[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]69265[/ATTACH]And here they are merged using HDR Efex Pro 2 with just the Balance Preset applied and no other adjustments.[ATTACH=full]69266[/ATTACH]With a little basic tweaking that would make a nice image.  And by the way, this one was taken with the D600, an almost equally brilliant sensor.Who needs to shoot bracketed images any more?   And there's no fear of ghosting due to movement. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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