Justo ahora estaba escuchando una vieja canción de los años 80, de Frankie Goes to Hollywood. "The Power of Love" y me ha inspirado para darle título a la entrada que estaba preparando ;-)
En mi última entrada escribí algunas ideas sobre como uso la sobreexposición para optimizar el procesado digital. Normalmente suelo sobreexponer entre +0,3 y +1EV, a veces incluso más, porque puedo obtener un mejor resultado durante el procesado de los niveles intermedios y las zonas oscuras de la imagen, aparte de que tengo menos problemas de ruido en ISO alta. Pero a veces me paso de la raya y obtengo un aimagen que es demasiado brillante (o incluso muy quemada). Esta fotografía de una cangrejera es un buen ejemplo de ello. El RAW está claramente sobreexpuesto (zonas rojas en el plumaje blanco de la garcilla), más de un punto y medio porque fallé la exposición (estaba esperando fotografiar a otra ave con condiciones de iluminación muy diferentes). Bueno, estaba intentando sobreexponer pero no tanto!
Por suerte, estaba usando RAW y pude solucionar el problema en un periquete durante la conversión de RAW. Añadí-1,65 de subexposición y... un montón de detalle en los blancos, sin zonas quemadas ni ruido digital (estaba usando ISO640 porque quería sobreexponer).
Uf, es increible lo que se puede hacer con un RAW y éste es uno de los ejemplos más sencillos que se pueden contar... otro día pondré algún ejemplo más extremo ;-)
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Right now I am listening in the radio an old song from the 80´s. "The Power of Love" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and I decided to use the title of that song for today´s entry in my blog.
In my past entry I talked about overexposure in digital and how I use overexposure for a better performance of my processing job (oops, the blog entry is written in spanish but I promise to translate it very soon). Usually, I try to overexpose my images between +0,3 and +1EV, sometimes even more, because I can do a better job in processing the midle tones and tha dark areas in images with a high dinamy range while avoiding the effects of digital noise. But sometimes I go a bit far overexposing and I end with a very bright image. This image of a squacco heron is a good example of what I am talking about. The RAW is clearly overexposed (all the red areas in the bird), more than one and a half stop because I failed the exposure because I was waiting for another bird in a place with different light conditions). Yes, I was trying to overexpose but not so much!
Fortunately I was shooting RAW and there was no problem to fix the image during the RAW conversion. I moved the exposure slider to -1,65 and the RAW conversion made its magic. Plenty of details in the white areas of the bird. No hot areas or white´s clipping and no problem of noise instead of the fact that I was using ISO 640 (do not forget that, instead of the fact that there was plenty of light, I was trying to overexpose and that is the reason for such a high ISO). It is amazing the things that you can do with a RAW and this is just but a very simple example... I will try to show a more extreme example in a coming entry ;-)
Your coments and questions are highly apreciated
In my past entry I talked about overexposure in digital and how I use overexposure for a better performance of my processing job (oops, the blog entry is written in spanish but I promise to translate it very soon). Usually, I try to overexpose my images between +0,3 and +1EV, sometimes even more, because I can do a better job in processing the midle tones and tha dark areas in images with a high dinamy range while avoiding the effects of digital noise. But sometimes I go a bit far overexposing and I end with a very bright image. This image of a squacco heron is a good example of what I am talking about. The RAW is clearly overexposed (all the red areas in the bird), more than one and a half stop because I failed the exposure because I was waiting for another bird in a place with different light conditions). Yes, I was trying to overexpose but not so much!
Fortunately I was shooting RAW and there was no problem to fix the image during the RAW conversion. I moved the exposure slider to -1,65 and the RAW conversion made its magic. Plenty of details in the white areas of the bird. No hot areas or white´s clipping and no problem of noise instead of the fact that I was using ISO 640 (do not forget that, instead of the fact that there was plenty of light, I was trying to overexpose and that is the reason for such a high ISO). It is amazing the things that you can do with a RAW and this is just but a very simple example... I will try to show a more extreme example in a coming entry ;-)
Your coments and questions are highly apreciated