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Improving contrast with X-T30
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crowley213
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Sure, you just need to define / adjust your Highlight and Shadow Tone settings.
As you may know, you can save different film simulation settings, including highlight tone, shadow tone, color, sharpness and so on. You can then easily access these different stored settings via the Q menu and change them also for the actual shooting.
Maybe have a look into this article, it explains the topic regarding highlight and shadow tones:
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blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com
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Thank you so much Herbert. I had find those settings and played a bit around but without evident results. I will study the text you kindly indicated and give it a second try afterwards.
crowley213
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No problem, you are welcome.
Maybe search the internet for similar articles, there are quite a few good ones out there. Not always easy to understand in the beginning, but definitely quite helpful in the long run.
Even more important: Play around with your settings for different film simulations (as they react different to these settings) and in different scenarios (as different exposure also has different effects).
A nice tool in here also is the Fuji X Raw Studio, where you can convert an existing RAW image into a JPEG with different settings, means you can change for example these highlight and shadow tone settings for the conversion of the same image and observe the effects and changes in the final outcome.
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Also make sure Dynamic Range Priority is OFF.
airwilf
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I just copied pasted in an e mail to myself & it appears to be fine. I can try to send it to you via a message if you'd like.
Erik Baumgartner
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What film sims are you using? Some are more contrasty than others.
Posting an example to illustrate the issue would probably be helpful.
Posting an example to illustrate the issue would probably be helpful.
Your perception of contrast depends on how and where you are viewing your photos. A low quality or poorly adjusted computer monitor or display may not convey the subtle nuances and differences in color or contrast.
When comparing and judging digital photos, always keep it in mind. Use a good quality, color-calibrated monitor.
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Morris0
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Are you using a lens hood? light striking the lens can cause flare that is visible as a loss of contrast.
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Mark
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Hav you googled 'Fujifilm + highlight tones + shadow tones'? There are so many informative websites and videos....
https://fujifilm-x.com/en-us/stories/advanced-month-11-black-white-44-grain-highlight-shadows/
https://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/video-lesson-how-to-use-fujis-highlight-shadow-tone-controls/
crowley213
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I am definitely not a pro, have to learn still a lot myself, but I dare to state that the outcome of these images depends less on a contrast setting in the camera than on light conditions during shooting the images.
Yes, you can tweak highlight and shadow tones to improve even such images, but way more necessary would be better light to expose the images correctly.
For me these images are definitely underexposed, something that doesn’t help the cause at all.
Questions:
Where did you take these images? Could you have use a tripod to enable a slower shutter speed to increase exposure? What about using flash? Do you have any faster lenses?
Look, a dull scenery in dull light not properly exposed will always result in a dull image, there is no way out.
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What you've got here isn’t a lack of contrast, but weak flat light and significant underexposure.
The histogram of your jpeg
Try a stronger (and uniformly distributed) light source and adjust the exposure compensation while looking through the EVF until it appears bright enough. It should come out looking more like this without doing anything else...
if you need more contrast, try shadow and highlight adjustments using positive values - Maybe +1 Shadows, +2 Highlights?, Probably not necessary with a better light source and proper exposure.
The histogram should look more like this,,,
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Mark
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Your pictures are underexposed, not lacking contrast.
Here are explanations that will help :
https://www.jmpeltier.com/using-mirrorless-histogram/
https://fujifilm-x.com/en-us/exposure-center/get-the-most-out-of-your-histogram/
https://fujifilm-x.com/en-us/stories/advanced-month-2-exposure-6-histograms/
Also, to achieve acceptable results, you may have to increase exposure time and use a stable support for your camera like a tripod.... hope that helps.
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Yes. As suggested, light plays a major role, but the lens also makes a little bit of a difference. At least that is what I notice with my X-T30.
Try using a different film simulation perhaps?
The lens of course also affects contrast so getting a more contrasty lens can improve it as well.
Thank you all for your valuable input. Many of few say the problem with the image is underexposure, not lack of contrast.
It might be so. However, the environment was dark and dark should be in the picture. But dark doesn't make it should lack contrast as it does. The light parts should be lighter when compared with the dark, predominant parts. Of course the histogram shows this darkness. But still, I am not happy with the contrast, and these were just examples.
I will play a bit with the settings, see if it improves.
It might be so. However, the environment was dark and dark should be in the picture. But dark doesn't make it should lack contrast as it does. The light parts should be lighter when compared with the dark, predominant parts. Of course the histogram shows this darkness. But still, I am not happy with the contrast, and these were just examples.
I will play a bit with the settings, see if it improves.
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