07-07-2011, 02:23 AM
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The purpose of fill flash is to brighten shadow areas. If you cannot brighten shadow areas with artificial lighting, you can use curves.
Again look at any basic tutorial on levels, curves and histograms:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/photoshop-curves.htm (scroll down to the before-and-after example following the sentence "The next example uses a curve to close the tonal gap between the sky and darker foliage.") Obviously you cannot use artificial lighting to illuminate the forest in that example. Higher dynamic range would be useful in this situation.
Unfortunately, you have a Canon fanboy agenda. I saw your posts on Nikon vs. Canon on dpreview.com pertaining to dynamic range. My posts are only for the benefit of the lurkers.
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The purpose of fill flash is to brighten shadow areas. If you cannot brighten shadow areas with artificial lighting, you can use curves.
Again look at any basic tutorial on levels, curves and histograms:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/photoshop-curves.htm (scroll down to the before-and-after example following the sentence "The next example uses a curve to close the tonal gap between the sky and darker foliage.") Obviously you cannot use artificial lighting to illuminate the forest in that example. Higher dynamic range would be useful in this situation.
Unfortunately, you have a Canon fanboy agenda. I saw your posts on Nikon vs. Canon on dpreview.com pertaining to dynamic range. My posts are only for the benefit of the lurkers.