At 04:28 PM 13/10/2004, you wrote:
This is a typical image where RAW would have made the post-processing much easier. The RAW would have used more bits to describe each step in the tonal range, and thus giving you at least half a stop more latitude, possibly up to two stops. I don't know the maths there, but from experience I know that the extra latitude can save the day.
Too true. I'm kicking myself for not using RAW. I fully intended to do but got distracted.
I took a range of shots starting with the dog correctly exposed down to exposing to get some detail in the sky. Not one of them was much use, so I thought it might be easier to do correction on on where ~nothing~ was correctly exposed <g>.
After struggling with some very strange meter readings and trying to get the darn camera to fire the flash to add in some fill flash, I gave up
The Dark Side Of the Dog was more difficult to improve. There are some shadows in there that are just totally black. I wasn't able to extract any further detail there...:-( - But at least I managed to bring out some more of the nice brown parts of the Berner-Sennen fur.
Actually, it's an Aussie but I'm always teasing her owner about having a nice tail-less berner pup :-)
Oh, and the link: http://oksne.net/wow/wendywow.html
Cheers, Jostein
Thanks for giving it a shot. You did better than I could. And I learned something about clipping masks too - thanks!
Wendy
Wendy Beard,
Ottawa, Canada
http://www.beard-redfern.com
