Hydrangeas at the New York Botanical Garden. Could use some dynamic range here. Raising the shadows beyond what I did in the third version introduces banding noise in the shadows. This is a photographic situation where the Nikon D800 is expected to shine.
The dome of the conservatory is overexposed, even with highlights set to 0 in LightRoom 4 (just upgraded from version 3)
What a correct exposure of the dome looks like. The foreground is wrapped in shadow.
Exposure +1.25, and Highlights -84 (trying to lift the foreground without losing background detail) and Shadows +14. I could do a little more shadow pushing, but it becomes noisy.
Pushing shadows all the way (the bad effects do not really show at this web size), this is what I would like the shot to look like.
The bad effects can be seen in this 100% crop:
Noise reduction works at the cost of the fine detail (e.g, the fine veins in the leaves are lost).
The dome of the conservatory is overexposed, even with highlights set to 0 in LightRoom 4 (just upgraded from version 3)
What a correct exposure of the dome looks like. The foreground is wrapped in shadow.
Exposure +1.25, and Highlights -84 (trying to lift the foreground without losing background detail) and Shadows +14. I could do a little more shadow pushing, but it becomes noisy.
Pushing shadows all the way (the bad effects do not really show at this web size), this is what I would like the shot to look like.
The bad effects can be seen in this 100% crop:
Noise reduction works at the cost of the fine detail (e.g, the fine veins in the leaves are lost).
