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Alot of people have asked "why shoot Raw?". This may not be the best example, and this isn't a very nice shot for an example, but it's an example all the same.
1. My initial shot, the gorge itself is exposed ok but by metering on the gorge, the sky detail is blown.
2. Underexposing by 4 stops in Lightroom, you can see that much of the sky detail is available which it wouldn't be on a Jpeg.
But by underexposing the shot to get the sky right, obviously this under exposes the gorge.
3. I also made another image in Lightroom which was 2 stops underexposed.
I then ran all 3 images through Dynamic-photo HDR and tonemapped the result.
As you can see you can now get a rather nicer image the the orginal with both gorge and sky visible.
The image itself is not a very good one. There's a spot of lens over the 2nd van on the lens, and I would like the skills to clone the vehicles out completely. But the point of this thread is to show one reason to shoot in RAW.
Hope this will be of help to someone or anyone
1. My initial shot, the gorge itself is exposed ok but by metering on the gorge, the sky detail is blown.
2. Underexposing by 4 stops in Lightroom, you can see that much of the sky detail is available which it wouldn't be on a Jpeg.
But by underexposing the shot to get the sky right, obviously this under exposes the gorge.
3. I also made another image in Lightroom which was 2 stops underexposed.
I then ran all 3 images through Dynamic-photo HDR and tonemapped the result.
As you can see you can now get a rather nicer image the the orginal with both gorge and sky visible.
The image itself is not a very good one. There's a spot of lens over the 2nd van on the lens, and I would like the skills to clone the vehicles out completely. But the point of this thread is to show one reason to shoot in RAW.
Hope this will be of help to someone or anyone