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Re: [Digital BW] Re: "Digital zone system" via filters (?)

2005-07-09 by Truman Prevatt

Paul Roark wrote:

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>One could argue that we'd be better off using bluish filters to compress the
>dynamic range of the scene.  I most often us orange filters with film and am
>oriented in that direction for aesthetic reasons.  I'm uncertain what the
>camera filtration effects will be on our Photoshop "filtering" to achieve
>these aesthetic effects.
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>Of course, any filtration will require longer exposures.
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Using mostly "skylight" for the image capture might well be the best way 
to compress the scene dynamic range. However, it will also accentuate 
scattering off of water vaper in the sky of landscape scens and will 
most likely have a overall negative effect.

Truman

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