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Re: An HDR question - Is bracketing really necessary? | |
Bifurcator wrote:
BTW cgardner,
A slightly more general automated approach to your example method there is just to use the three sliders in ACR: Fill Light, Blacks, and Recovery. Most of the time their default thresholds come out being the same as the blending masks I would have to create by hand.
Thanks for the suggestion. I do actually that and more in ACR globally on the RAW for every image before doing selective local adjustments with masks in PS. I prefer the separate masks so I can tweek by eye with sliders between 0-100% to find what looks best after opening the masks.
In most outdoor situation where scene>sensor and highlights are exposed for detail mid-tones get rendered a zone or so darker than they actually are and I pull them back up with brightness in ACR.
These are from a flash test where I also used ACR, Levels middle slider, and Levels + masks to illustrate various options to \"normalize\" foreground.
Camera
With dual flash in foreground
Camera w. Levels middle slider
Less extreme Levels + adj layer selective edits
ACR - did this last mostly to show there\'s less noise pulling up in ACR vs PS levels
I use flash whenever possible in situations like that to get normal full range in foreground. Less attention gets paid to under exposed shadows in the background.
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