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Pete's Coffee and Tea with Two Families Including Children Sitting In The Window With

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    ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2010
    Can and should are different. If you can have deep unplugged shadows, than you can also have deep plugged shadows. The other way around, not so much.
    If not now, when?
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    PattiPatti Registered Users Posts: 1,576 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2010
    bdcolen wrote:
    Yah, yah, right, right...go look at Smith's stuff and you will find - by and large - shadows blocked up tighter than a nose four days into a really, really bad head cold. :Drolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif

    Currently, I know that feeling. Thanks for the laugh.rolleyes1.gif
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    ... I'm still peeling potatoes.

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    bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2010
    Sometimes it is the mystery that lies in the blocked up shadows that add drama, suspense, and mood to an image.

    True - although now that I re-read what Rutt said, I must admit that he was dead-on right - if you can expose in such a way that there is detail in your shadows, then you have the option of showing that detail, or, like Gene Smith, burning it to hell and gone over the course of 36 meth-fueled hours in the darkroom (or in our case, in front of your computer monitor rolleyes1.gif )
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    Wil DavisWil Davis Registered Users Posts: 1,692 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2010
    Assuming this train of thought, we should all be shooting HDR images.

    …yeah, dead right! rolleyes1.gif

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    "…………………" - Marcel Marceau
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    RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,931 moderator
    edited January 3, 2010
    Assuming this train of thought, we should all be shooting HDR images.

    In most situations, just exposing properly will do.
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