In a message dated 9/7/2005 10:34:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are some ways to define and understand the term:
- A "blown highlight" is a highlight area where you wanted *some* detail (like the subtle texture of a white shirt) but there is none: it's basically blank white in the image. - In Zone System parlance, a blown highlight would be a Zone IX exposure that missed and overexposed by about a stop. - In 8bit grayscale parlance, all pixel values in an image range between 0 and 255. A blown highlight is any area where you wanted to render some detail that has an average pixel value over 220. (I set Zone IX areas to have pixel values between 185 and 220.) Hope that helps. :-) Godfrey =============== Yes, it does. Thanks. I would think it's partly the photographer's preference then. Sometimes he/she may not want detail. Like the duck shown recently, which someone else later said was "high key". I feel another survey coming on. :-) Marnie aka Doe Although I should report the results of the second to last one first (re exposure survey).
