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Abandoned FB about 5 years ago.  Recently set up a Flickr account, but not sure how I'd use it yet.  If I were active on either, I'd be posting JPEG renditions that fit their strictures; thanks ...

I have a D7000, and recently procured a Z6, but that's not germane to your question... In using  both cameras, I have found the following two realizations about post-processing to be the most ...

I'm not currently doing this, but it is in line with my experimentation of the Nikon Z6 highlight-weighted matrix metering: Take a look at the scene, find the brightest thing for which  you want to ...

You might experiment a bit with the HDR mode (RefManual p.205).  It'll do two back-to-back captures and combine them into a single JPEG.  You can specify the exposure differential, and there's an ...

There are a few image operations happening with import/export in any PP software, particularly color profile conversion.  But  your point is well taken; GPU acceleration is more about anything ...

"ETTR" is a bit misleading, in my observation.  In any exposure, you really do not want to blow  highlights, but that isn't always a minus EV.  Given how cameras meter, "R" is usually what is ...

+1 Increased ISO doesn't introduce significant noise, it just enables shorter/smaller exposures, which put the light below levels on the sensor with an acceptable signal/noise ratio. What Tom says... ...

3:29 > 3:21 2:51 = 2:51 i'm not feeling the love here...   :D

What pixelgenius is pointing out is that, using the ICC way of doing color management for illustration, color profiles contain two things 1) a set of primaries defining the color gamut, and 2) a ...

Yes, this. However, it'll only show you the curve it took to make the raw image look like the embedded JPEG, which would be the sum of all the camera-applied tone operators. OP, you've got the ...

I do think some of the HDR done in real estate photography comes out garish-looking.  But, there's a compelling reason to do it that gets pushed to the side, and that's to show as much of the ...

Thanks for the considered response, I'm learning a lot from folks' perspectives here.  A few musings inserted below.... My observation is from inspecting just a few images, YMMV. It'd be nice if ...

Here's a rendition before resizing: It's a crop; I had to remove an unsightly front-end loader from the right-hand side. I've been all over it and can't find any banding.  It's a bit noisy in the ...

Sorry, I post between here and pixls.us, where the RawTherapee and darktable software developers hang out. I do think such tone curves are pertinent to things like ETTR. I have long used a regular ...

Thing is, in each image pair I shot, no matter what the EV difference between plain matrix and HW-matrix, the brightest highlights were at least a stop below the sensor saturation point.  I'd like ...

So, I use my own software. In that, each operation from the raw file data on is explicitly applied by the user. I do have a preset that does camera colorspace conversion, blackpoint subtraction, ...

A couple of manifestations come to mind: (1) Only reports positive voltages. (2) Audio response: "That's an impressive charge you have there..."

I marked @ericbowles post as the answer, the closest description the behavior I've observed. I need to see this in action, so out with the ColorChecker this week, will try to construct a high ...

Hmmm... I'da thought it would be more like 2.5 stops down to be neutral gray...  if that's what's going on, then it would be a simple +1.5EV or so.  That'd be cool.

This past weekend, I spent a morning shooting my favorite subject, steam locomotives.  Specifically, following the engine for the regular train* as it prepared for the run, in the early morning ...