06-28-2011, 10:05 PM
[quote name='Brightcolours' timestamp='1309210638' post='9593']
Shooting into the bright sun with shadow parts of course will be a very high dynamic range scene, and will not get more attractive when you compress that high dynamic range into a low dynamic range image (that is what you do, when having a former high dynamic range in a 16 bit per channel image).
Pulling down the bright, and pulling up the shadows, that will just make the image unattractive and flat. To counter than, one can only boost local contrast in a big way, which gives those awful bad HDR halos and weird colour effects.
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If the subject is backlit and, say, a human being, photographers tend to use fill flash. If you don't know what fill flash is: http://www.learn.usa.canon.com/resources/articles/2011/fill_flash_use_EOS_article.shtml (EDIT: here's another one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wizwow/2229086928/)
In the case of a backlit coastal scene, you may not be able to illuminate the foreground with artificial lighting. You may however be able to recover some shadow detail in post-processing, if the detail is retained in the photograph data.
EDIT: The point is that not all scenes are the same. Some scenes provide you with too much contrast. In the extreme cases, if you're not careful, then you get a black silhouette as your subject and a washed out background.
Shooting into the bright sun with shadow parts of course will be a very high dynamic range scene, and will not get more attractive when you compress that high dynamic range into a low dynamic range image (that is what you do, when having a former high dynamic range in a 16 bit per channel image).
Pulling down the bright, and pulling up the shadows, that will just make the image unattractive and flat. To counter than, one can only boost local contrast in a big way, which gives those awful bad HDR halos and weird colour effects.
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If the subject is backlit and, say, a human being, photographers tend to use fill flash. If you don't know what fill flash is: http://www.learn.usa.canon.com/resources/articles/2011/fill_flash_use_EOS_article.shtml (EDIT: here's another one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wizwow/2229086928/)
In the case of a backlit coastal scene, you may not be able to illuminate the foreground with artificial lighting. You may however be able to recover some shadow detail in post-processing, if the detail is retained in the photograph data.
EDIT: The point is that not all scenes are the same. Some scenes provide you with too much contrast. In the extreme cases, if you're not careful, then you get a black silhouette as your subject and a washed out background.