Basically you shoot three (or more) shots of the same subject at three very different exposures. Then you pool all the pixel data to create a single image with a ridiculous amount of color/light data per pixel, far more than a monitor can display. Then you pull it back down to reality, and pick and choose which chunks of color data to keep, allowing you to get full detail in both the brightest and darkest sections of an image, which you simply can't do with a single image on either film or digital.
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Basically you shoot three (or more) shots of the same subject at three very different exposures. Then you pool all the pixel data to create a single image with a ridiculous amount of color/light data per pixel, far more than a monitor can display. Then you pull it back down to reality, and pick and choose which chunks of color data to keep, allowing you to get full detail in both the brightest and darkest sections of an image, which you simply can't do with a single image on either film or digital.
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Moved to dreamwidth
Moved to dreamwidth, same username over there. Link me up.
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Just an "I'm alive and reading" post. hi all. :)
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stories...
1: the IRS says hi. So about a week ago our mail carrier dropped us off two little pink slips of paper, one for each of us, saying that we had…
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