I can't say enough good things about what you can do with pulling up detail from the shadows in the K5.
Saturday night, the wife and I pedaled around Washington DC taking photos of the monuments. One shot I did, I figured "well, the contrast is too much but I'll just expose for the brights and see what else I can get in post". So, I spot-metered on the Washington monument, and took this 13-second exposure at f/9 and ISO 100. As you can see, the image "straight out of the camera" is not much to write home about: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpbyheptagcykqj/K5__4359-original.jpg?dl=0 However, in LR I did only two (very-drastic) adjustments: 1. I jammed the exposure slider all the way up (+5 stops) 2. I pulled the highlights all the way down (-100) The result is this. Not high art, but a good-enough documentation of what I saw when I was there: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7djxrsj2pwcfl0e/K5__4359-processed.jpg?dl=0 There is some mottling up in the sky due to it being a low-quality JPEG export (and there's also a speck of dust on my darned sensor!) but still - wow. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
