From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Recovering details and exposure settings

Recovering details and exposure settings

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Recovering details and exposure settings

- I recently made this picture. This is not how the image came out of the camera. When I say I made this picture, I mean from start to finish, taking the shot, doing my post-production, here was my final result. I like this picture. I'm showing it to you today because this picture has thrown me for a loop a little bit. Partly because of some aesthetic decisions that I have to make, that I had to make that I want to talk to you about, but more because of how my original exposure strategy turned out to not be right. And the reason it's not right is because I'm still thinking with exposure strategies that are about 10 years old, and in the meantime, digital cameras have changed a lot in terms of their noise response and their dynamic range ability. This shot has taught me that I can now start thinking about certain situations very differently in terms of exposure, and I want to walk you through what happened to me here and what I've learned because I think you're going to find that maybe…

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