Best workflow to recover Highlights and Shadows

[gadolf (Gustavo Adolfo)]

Photographers: stop clipping your highlights

In my 4-years long experience of helping people get decent pictures and get a grasp at image processing, I often ran into the same problem, which triggers a lot of subsequent problems in sometimes sneaky ways… Photographers keep clipping their highlights and expecting magic in software to forgive their mistake. What’s clipping ? Digital sensors (and not just in photography) can only record signals up to a certain intensity: the saturation threshold. Past that threshold, if you keep increasing…