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FEATURED WEB TUTORIAL: EXPOSURE
 

Making the Most of Exposure, Digitally

Published by:  Apogee Photo Magazine
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"Don't worry about it. You can fix it in Photoshop." While that admonition may be true for some things, exposure is not one of them. Even more than film, when shooting digital it is essential to get proper exposures if you want quality images. Let's examine the reasons.

First, what must be clearly understood about using a photo editor such as Photoshop is that every time you make an adjustment using levels and curves you lose data. Each time you make additional changes this loss is compounded. You probably won’t see this on your monitor, but when you either print the image on your own printer or have it printed by someone else, it will most likely be very obvious. It will show itself as banding in the critical areas of gentle transitions in tonal values such as those of skin or in the sky. This banding will be an irregular hard line that marks the transition from one tone to the next. It’s as if the tonal values jump from one value to the next. ...
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