Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> So which is more what the day was REALLY like.
> Like the second photo, or the first which was
> crappy and you made it look nice?
> I am guessing the day was like #1 and with
> manipulation you made something decent out of a
> nothing shot, correct! By the way I think you
> mentioned or showed the shot used on the Coffee
> mug before, but I am not sure.
> Nice images though when finished. Reminds me of
> those guys who use Orange filters on those sunset
> shots!
> Greg
None of the changes Jerry described are anything other than making the image tone line up with what we perceive. Cameras record light on their own terms, and we view it with all sorts of adjustments made by our brains. There's not a single JPEG that comes out of a camera that hasn't been changed to accommodate that difference. Based on your background, I think you know what I'm talking about...
These newer Nikon cameras have sensors that are just phenomenal. Their dynamic range is within a couple of stops of the average human's perception, and all it takes is a bit of pulling to get clean shadows from the linear camera recording to human perception. I don't run denoise with my Z6 images at all, where I had to do it about a third of the time with my D7000.
Now, if Jerry would have touched the saturation slider, or horrors, started erasing things out of the image, that'd be a different story. Based on his photojournalism background and former employer, I know that's not in his lexicon. I've gotta ask the crowd though, who's taken pictures at Chama and wanted to erase that pesky wire running to IIRC the coal tipple?