jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Maybe I'll get a printer someday which will reward me for
>processing and storing 16-bit images.
>
>
That doesn't seem so remote a possibility to me.
Here's a shot I took looking down into a flower in bright sun. The
central part in direct sun is so bright that the yellowish color around
it on the petals is sunlight reflected from it. I don't know what the
dynamic range is in the RAW file, but I know the JPEG didn't capture the
whole range. In fact, I found getting the whole range right, with good
detail in the highlights and still retaining reasonable brightness in
the petals and the subtle shading of the veins impossible, even directly
from RAW. I could get in the ballpark, but not what quite I wanted.
With RAW, however, one can extract two (or more) images with different
effective exposures and shoulder or toe characteristics. So I combined
two different "exposures" to create one which holds all the detail on
both ends.. You may or may not like this particular result, but I hope
it shows the possibilities
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/JPEGvsRAW.htm>.
Moose
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