Dani Solatie
New Member
Hi everybody, happy new year!
I was thinking without actually experimenting this yet, a procedure to bracket different exposures protecting the highlights, ir order to avoid blown highlights in contrasty scenes, and then do hdr as low into the shadows from there.
1. Spot meter the brightest part of the scene, for example some white clouds in a landscape.
2. Compensate the exposure at +2 ev.
3. Bracket the exposure at +-2 ev.
So, with the exposre compensated and bracketed, you will end up with three images at 0, +2 and +4 ev, being 0 the exposure you metered in the clouds, and two longer exposures that will allow you to get details from the shadows.
This way you know that the darkest of the exposures will retain as much info as possible in the highlights.
Am I right or am I missing something? Do you think this should work?
If the camera allows bracketing a wider range, for example +-3 ev, you could compensate the metered exposure at +3 ev, and bracket at +-3 ev, going deeper into the shadows.
What do you think?
Dani
I was thinking without actually experimenting this yet, a procedure to bracket different exposures protecting the highlights, ir order to avoid blown highlights in contrasty scenes, and then do hdr as low into the shadows from there.
1. Spot meter the brightest part of the scene, for example some white clouds in a landscape.
2. Compensate the exposure at +2 ev.
3. Bracket the exposure at +-2 ev.
So, with the exposre compensated and bracketed, you will end up with three images at 0, +2 and +4 ev, being 0 the exposure you metered in the clouds, and two longer exposures that will allow you to get details from the shadows.
This way you know that the darkest of the exposures will retain as much info as possible in the highlights.
Am I right or am I missing something? Do you think this should work?
If the camera allows bracketing a wider range, for example +-3 ev, you could compensate the metered exposure at +3 ev, and bracket at +-3 ev, going deeper into the shadows.
What do you think?
Dani