Thanks Paul, but some of the credit has to go to Godfrey. We were out shooting in SF that day, and he explained to me that it's OK to overexpose based on the metered scene. So this shot was about a good stop over the meter reading, thus enabling good shadow detail retention while still maintaining detail in the brightest parts of the scene.
What is constantly surprising me is the latitude one has when shooting raw, especially when the exposures are made with a knowledge of how they'll be processed in PS. It's been said that shooting digital is like shooting slide film in terms of how one exposes, but that just doesn't seem right. I'd swear that if you get the exposure right, and know what you're doing with the raw converter, you can get more latitude than color neg film. BTW, of all the K lenses I've used on the DS thus far, the 135/2.5 is clearly amongst the best. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stenquist > Fun pic. I like it. And it looks like you succeeded admirably in > retaining both good shadow and highlight detail. > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > This was more or less a test shot - one of the first times I used > > a K lens on the istDS. Apart from anything else, I was curious > > how well the highlights and shadows could be rendered using > > raw. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~shel-pix/reflections.html > > > > Tech stuff: istDS, K135/2.5, ISO 200, 1/250sec, F8.0 (iirc)
