Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Exposure (photography)
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Latitude== [[File:blown-out highlights.jpg|thumb|right|Example image exhibiting blown-out highlights. Top: original image, bottom: blown-out areas marked red]] Latitude is the degree by which one can over, or under expose an image, and still recover an acceptable level of quality from an exposure. Typically negative film has a better ability to record a range of brightness than slide/transparency film or digital. Digital should be considered to be the reverse of print film, with a good latitude in the shadow range, and a narrow one in the highlight area; in contrast to film's large highlight latitude, and narrow shadow latitude. Slide/Transparency film has a narrow latitude in both highlight and shadow areas, requiring greater exposure accuracy. Negative film's latitude increases somewhat with high ISO material, in contrast digital tends to narrow on latitude with high ISO settings. <!-- [[exposure bracketing]] ... [[HD curve]]s (apply to film and digital) ... Rule of thumb for (negative) film "expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights", but for reversal film or digital/video "expose for the highlights and process for the shadows" ... --> ===Highlights=== {{main article|Clipping (photography)}} Areas of a photo where information is lost due to extreme brightness are described as having "blown-out highlights" or "flared highlights". In digital images this information loss is often irreversible, though small problems can be made less noticeable using [[Graphics program|photo manipulation software]]. Recording to RAW format can correct this problem to some degree, as can using a digital camera with a better sensor. Film can often have areas of extreme overexposure but still record detail in those areas. This information is usually somewhat recoverable when printing or transferring to digital. A loss of highlights in a photograph is usually undesirable, but in some cases can be considered to "enhance" appeal. Examples include [[Black and White Photography|black and white photography]] and portraits with an out-of-focus background. ===Blacks=== Areas of a photo where information is lost due to extreme darkness are described as "crushed blacks". Digital capture tends to be more tolerant of underexposure, allowing better recovery of shadow detail, than same-ISO negative print film. Crushed blacks cause loss of detail, but can be used for artistic effect.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Exposure (photography)
(section)
Add topic