Exposed up by a couple of stops in software it comes out like this (http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/photos/misc/IMG_0067ps.jpg).
I'm still on a learning curve particularly with flash (I've read NK Guy's article on EOS flash (http://photonotes.org/articles/eos-flash/) a couple of times but don't have anything like an intuitive grasp of it all yet). If the camera didn't get it right so often I'd have more tricky cases to practice on l-)
I've heard of the zone system, but I've yet to come across a better than cursory description of how to use it.
I used to use the zone system (or at least a cut-down version of it I learned from some photo magazine or other) back when I did B&W film and did my own printing (early to mid 1980s). I recently rediscovered it, so I've been trying to fit it with digital -- it does seem to work pretty well.
*The* reference is the book, The Negative, by Ansel Adams, but you might also like to treat yourself to The Camera and The Print too, because the three make a series. All are superb. All don't even mention digital, of course, so it is interesting to see how the film techniques Adams perfected were just *so* much harder to get right than the tools we have available now.
The corrected image does look a bit livelier -- it might still need a bit more tweaking, of course, but it does bring out the surface detail of the spider pretty well.
By the way, doseybat remarked that she really liked the flower!
I doubt you'll regret it. All three talk about the zone system. The Camera also has a really good section on view cameras, which sold me on the idea to the extent that I'm intending to get hold of one.
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Exposed up by a couple of stops in software it comes out like this (http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/photos/misc/IMG_0067ps.jpg).
I'm still on a learning curve particularly with flash (I've read NK Guy's article on EOS flash (http://photonotes.org/articles/eos-flash/) a couple of times but don't have anything like an intuitive grasp of it all yet). If the camera didn't get it right so often I'd have more tricky cases to practice on l-)
I've heard of the zone system, but I've yet to come across a better than cursory description of how to use it.
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*The* reference is the book, The Negative, by Ansel Adams, but you might also like to treat yourself to The Camera and The Print too, because the three make a series. All are superb. All don't even mention digital, of course, so it is interesting to see how the film techniques Adams perfected were just *so* much harder to get right than the tools we have available now.
The corrected image does look a bit livelier -- it might still need a bit more tweaking, of course, but it does bring out the surface detail of the spider pretty well.
By the way,
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