Digital BW, The Print

Due to their obvious cutoff I've found that the ND grads don't offer
seamless control of high values. Although I don't use digital for 'serious'
capture I find that bracketing film exposures and combining the different
exposures in PS offers an easy, convincing and variable degree of control
for extremely wide scene brightness ranges. Digital capture would allow the
same control. We see a lot of inappropriate/sloppy use of ND grads that
resemble sloppy burns in the darkroom.

Rick

www.richardmurai.com
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> At the risk of repeating......The sensor is only going
> to have 6 or seven stops of range. If you are shooting
> a high contrast scene bracketing is only going to help
> if you merge the images in photoshop and "clean things
> up."  The best solution is to use ND grads to
> "compress the scene to a number of stops your sensor
> can handle. ND's are typically sold in 1,2 or 3 stop
> versions. The best solution, when possible, is to get
> it right in the camera and not depend on
> post-processing to do major tweaks.
> 
> woody
> 
> 
> --- Scott McLoughlin <scott@...> wrote:
> 
>> If I understand what your saying, then for quick
>> shooting, would it be
>> advantageous to auto bracket shots when shooting
>> digital then?
>> DSLR's are rather automated beasts. I don't do this
>> currently, but
>> maybe I should. Thoughts?
>> 
>> Scott
>>