On 2010-12-18 07:37 , Kenton Brede wrote:
I took the following photo in low light conditions with a macro lens on f/16, shutter speed of 30 sec. and ISO at 200. I used a lamp to create the shadow. Anyway I liked the photo for the most part. The histogram shows stacking on the dark side. The part I don't like is the shadow. In the original there's some yellow mixed in, and after any kind of processing to darken the shadow, I get pixelation. Is this a sign of what's called clipping? How can I avoid this showing up when taking pictures like this in the future?
it looks like JPEG artifacts to me, it's not clipping -- it's more that the darkest areas don't transition smoothly, but have instead clumped into rectangular zones of the same shade
did you shoot RAW or JPEG? did you save as JPEG multiple times while editing?
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