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[Donald Chin]

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[Augustin Man]

Excellent bird series, thank you for sharing! I didn't understand however why you chose ISO 1600 and -1 EV in the forth image?

Thank you for answering me,

Augustin

 

[VisionLight]

There are many wonderful images in your recent threads and I have basically the same question as Augustin. You appear to use high ISOs and high negative EC quite often, obviously to good effect in high contrast as well as normal lighting. The resulting images have very good dynamic range without appearing too flat or too painterly. Please tell us more about your workflow and how much of this is in camera (detailed settings that don't appear in the DPR mini-EXIFs) and what and how much is from post.

Thanks

Ed

 

[Hossam Saad ElDin Abd Alhalim Farg]

Dove and white duck are Amazing, thanks for sharing Donald

 

[Donald Chin]

Augustin Man wrote:

Excellent bird series, thank you for sharing! I didn't understand however why you chose ISO 1600 and -1 EV in the forth image?

Thank you for answering me,

Augustin

Blown up highlight can't be recovered even I shoot raw, in order to retain the detail of it white face, I need to override camera matrix metering by -1EV.

Using ISO 1600 is simply because I need a faster shutter speed to freeze it head from motion blur, if not for a small 1/2.3" sensor, I would have push up ISO further at least a stop.

 

[Augustin Man]

Donald Chin wrote:

Augustin Man wrote:

Excellent bird series, thank you for sharing! I didn't understand however why you chose ISO 1600 and -1 EV in the forth image?

Thank you for answering me,

Augustin

Blown up highlight can't be recovered even I shoot raw, in order to retain the detail of it white face, I need to override camera matrix metering by -1EV.

Using ISO 1600 is simply because I need a faster shutter speed to freeze it head from motion blur, if not for a small 1/2.3" sensor, I would have push up ISO further at least a stop.

Thank you very much for the explanation! I've just learned something very useful for my future shots

All the best,

Augustin

 

[Donald Chin]

VisionLight wrote:

There are many wonderful images in your recent threads and I have basically the same question as Augustin. You appear to use high ISOs and high negative EC quite often, obviously to good effect in high contrast as well as normal lighting. The resulting images have very good dynamic range without appearing too flat or too painterly. Please tell us more about your workflow and how much of this is in camera (detailed settings that don't appear in the DPR mini-EXIFs) and what and how much is from post.

Thanks

Ed

I enjoy automation so I often shoot in P mode, Matrix metering and Auto ISO, however matrix metering is still a kind of average metering which require us to override depends on our point of interest, so EC is necessary regardless of how sophisticate the program built in the camera.

Small sensor has limited DR so to avoid blown up highlight is a must in exposure, we can retrieve shadow in PP with the expense of noise but we can do for highlight detail.

Since digital is WYSIWYG, PP is just a mater of taste IMHO. I use ACR for raw conversion and necessary adjustment mostly will be carried out during the conversion stage. I don't play around with layers, plug-in noise ware etc in PP.

 

[VisionLight]

Donald Chin wrote:

VisionLight wrote:

There are many wonderful images in your recent threads and I have basically the same question as Augustin. You appear to use high ISOs and high negative EC quite often, obviously to good effect in high contrast as well as normal lighting. The resulting images have very good dynamic range without appearing too flat or too painterly. Please tell us more about your workflow and how much of this is in camera (detailed settings that don't appear in the DPR mini-EXIFs) and what and how much is from post.

Thanks

Ed

I enjoy automation so I often shoot in P mode, Matrix metering and Auto ISO, however matrix metering is still a kind of average metering which require us to override depends on our point of interest, so EC is necessary regardless of how sophisticate the program built in the camera.

Small sensor has limited DR so to avoid blown up highlight is a must in exposure, we can retrieve shadow in PP with the expense of noise but we can do for highlight detail.

Since digital is WYSIWYG, PP is just a mater of taste IMHO. I use ACR for raw conversion and necessary adjustment mostly will be carried out during the conversion stage. I don't play around with layers, plug-in noise ware etc in PP.

Thanks Donald for both this reply and the reply to Augustin. Although I prefer more controlled use of my cameras, from time to time I like to experiment with using more automation and your workflow shows that very nice results can come from doing so. Especially when using raw and having the extended ability for correction and recovery.