agriggio
December 6, 2018, 9:55am
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nik:
Although I agree that all tools can be abused, my feeling is that the kind of tonal overlaps indicated upthread are responsible for the characteristic “bad HDR” look that heavy highlights/shadows adjustments sometimes produce. So it may be worth thinking about how to prevent them so we can recover even more detail without worry.
The S/H tool is not meant to do “heavy HDR”. Rather, it’s meant to be applied with a “light touch”, and used in conjunction with other tools that can deal with dynamic range compression (the “Dynamic Range Compression” one in particular – oddly enough ;-). See also:
Hi,
That’s a nice result! I agree that it looks better than what you got with the shadows/highlights tool of RT. However, FWIW that’s not how I would use the S/H tool. (In my mind at least) the S/H tool is meant to be used for “fine tuning” the picture, to be applied with a “light touch”. RT has another tool, which happens to be called “Dynamic Range Compression”, which is what I would use to perform the bulk of the work. Here’s an example.
Your starting point:
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2EV exposure lifti…
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