Composition and Form

[Kev Lewis]

Originally Posted by Jon

Matt
I initially opened them in Rawshooter, applied the wizard to auto fix the exposure (it isn't always correct but usually it is not far out). I then processed them and opened them in Photoshop. I checked the levels - using Kev's method is good, but it is exactly the reverse of the normal way, i.e. you detect the low exposure first as opposed to the high - but for me I don't see any particular advantage one way or t'other as the straight forward way clearly illustrates over exposure as opposed to under exposure the points in question are shown as red - over and blue - under. On reflection I think Kev's way is logically more sensitive. After this I checked the shadow/highlight tool - what a revelation! I hadn't used it before but wow it really shows detail that was not hitherto visible, - once again thanks to Graham.

Jon

looks like I slightly confused people, It doesn't matter which end of the exposure you adjust first, it was just the way I typed it in. Normally I get the highlights sorted first as well