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Blow Out, Part 5: RAW Processors

Please Note: This will be the last post on highlights for now. We'll be offering some advanced highlight-recovery tricks at a later date.

Every RAW processor will handle highlights differently. For example, being a Mac user, I have the opportunity to test image processing with both Apple's Aperture and Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom. I find that Aperture can recover blown highlights just a little bit more elegantly than can Lightroom. Yet Lightroom's interface is more straightforward and easier to master. RAW processors have nuances and characteristics to their resulting images that remind me of the personalities of various types of film. We can fine-tune these processors to achieve various effects but that's beyond the scope of this discussion.

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Blow Out, Part 4: In Post

So far, our discussion of highlights has been limited to our work in the field. This makes sense. It's best to control just about any process in its early stages—this is true for most things in life, be it health care, home maintenance, manufacturing, or photography. If we manage exposure we pretty much set the stage for a good photograph. But, the real world moves fast and we sometimes don't have the time or energy to get a perfect exposure. Sometimes lighting is just tricky. Sometimes we forget the basics.

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Blow Out, Part 3: Exposure Techniques

Exposure is at least as important in digital photography as it is in silver-based imaging, probably more so. As we've previously discussed, the dynamic range of today's digital, imaging sensors is limited. And when we lose highlight detail, the results are ugly. So, proper placement of highlight exposure is critical.

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