Then I think I am confused in my understanding of using raw , if I use
olympus viewer I can change the exposure a stop or two up and down and
adjust the colour etc, but this doesn't help me for example when the sky
is blown out but the main subject is dark, I would like to underexpose a
bit for the sky and then overexpose for the subject and combine them, to
solve the problem I have in this picture for example
http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/photos/72560784-M.jpg
which I tweaked to bring the old couple out of the shadow, but by doing
so blew out the sky.
I wouldn't be surprised if I am missing something here, I keep finding
new stuff in iview which helps my workflow so if there is a way of doing
what I want easily then that would be great.
IanW
Moose wrote:
> swisspace wrote:
>> Thanks for comments, We were busy with the little one so often I didn't
>> have time to think about camera settings (and when I did I used the OM
>> with 21mm), all were taken raw, I think I read somewhere that photoshop
>> cs has the ability to combine two images easily for high dynamic range,
>> so I need to work out how to do it in PS 7 or gimp, I seem to remember a
>> mini how to has been posted here so will search back through the emails.
>>
> You really shouldn't have to go that far. I don't know specifically
> about the Oly RAW conversion software, but generally they have controls
> that allow adjustments to exposure, contrast and highlight and shadow
> expansion/compression, although they will often be called different
> thing. One should be able to recover whatever highlight detail isn't
> completely lost in the RAW file through the conversion process, without
> needing multiple passes. With most RAW files, there is at least a stop
> of detail that can be recovered compared to simply converting using the
> camera settings, sometimes a little more.
>
> I've fairly commonly taken multiple exposures at different settings when
> shooting high contrast scenes with a camera that can only do JPEG
> output, then combined them in PS to get the whole range of scene
> brightness into one image, but that's a different thing.
>
> Moose
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