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Old 07-02-2008   #3 (permalink)
Jacco
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Default Re: Posed Dance Portraits

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Originally Posted by R-V View Post
Good Morning,

I am going to set up home studio today. Wish I had a dedicated studio.
What type lighting is use to pose ballet, jazz, and tap dancers in costume. Ballet is a Poddle Skirt, the others are floppy pants. Colors have a lot of black and brights.
That sounds like you're set to get a high contrast range in your images, which your digital camera – if set to shoot JPG or TIFF – will not be able to capture. Highlights will either be blown out, or shadows will be all black without any definition. Or both, of course.

You can tackle that by shooting in RAW format, then in PP create different TIFFs with different exposure settings from a single RAW file: say 3 TIFFs 2 stops apart, or 5 TIFFs 1 stop apart. Then you blend/merge them using HDR technique to create an image with well-balanced contrast.
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