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Recents shots from Bay of Pigs, Cuba

Started May 31, 2019 | Discussions thread
PHXAZCRAIG
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Re: Recents shots from Bay of Pigs, Cuba

By cropping in camera I mean that you don't have the luxury of cropping out distracting elements or changing the composition later (from landscape to vertical, for example).

Essentially you're having to shoot like you're shooting slide film.   Everything has to be right in-camera.   And that means knowing what composition you intend before pressing the shutter release, and it means looking at the backgrounds, the corners and the edges to compose around or against distractions.

One thing I would do with my Nikons if I had to produce finished JPGs out of camera is to turn on D-lighting, perhaps aggressively.   Since I no longer use Nikon software in post, I don't bother with D-lighting, but I see it as a means of controlling dynamic range.  I don't know if your camera has such a setting.  In practice, the camera underexposes a bit (control highlights) then pushes the shadows.  (As opposed to taking a normal shot and then enabling D-lighting in post.  Does the same stuff, but the shot doesn't start out underexposed.)

It may be that within the rules of the contest you can still do post-processing, as long as it is done in-camera.   That might be one way to lift some shadows or pull down some highlights.

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