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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-09-2016, 10:24 AM
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There are lots of cases such as this one where the light and conditions are very static. There's time to set up the JPEG contrast, saturation etc. to give a great result for that shooting session. The key is to adjust JPEG settings to match the location, light and subject matter.
Regards,
--Anders.
---------- Post added 9th Jul 2016 at 19:37 ----------
Yes, it's called shadow and highlight correction, not protection. You might need to set your ISO to something other than 100 to have access to highlight correction "on".
About the contrast highlight and shadow adjustment sliders, here's a rerun posting from me about those:
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/282312-contrast-highlight-...ml#post3073704
Regards,
--Anders.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
07-08-2016, 01:36 PM
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Yes, high contrast scenes are where RAW starts to make a lot of sense.
But the JPEG engine offers some tools too.
You should always expose for the highlights of course.- You can enable highlight protection for that extra stop of highlight headroom.
- You can use shadow protection on mid or max to lift the shadows.
- You can use the high/low key slider to lift the midtones.
- You can use the contrast slider to lower contrast - that also helps to manage the scene DR.
In total, all those tricks can lift the shadows around 2.5 stops in camera.
To make it work in camera you need the time to eyeball the scene contrast. And you need
practice with the JPEG engine to set it up before the exposure.
Another life saver is the "save as raw" feature. That thing makes me dare to shoot a lot more
stuff as JPEG than I'd otherwise do.
Yet another life saver is the ability to redevelop the most recent shot again and again
with different JPEG settings, including shadow protection and white balance.
Here's an old JPEG example of mine, where I spot metered to put the clouds at +2, used contrast at 0,
highlight protection on and shadow protection on max with the monochrome image style.
Regards,
--Anders.
---------- Post added 8th Jul 2016 at 22:45 ----------
You can also bring up the shadows in camera JPEGS with the shadow protection feature.
But in your case (get it right now or wait till next year?) I'd at least shoot RAW+JPEG for insurance.
Love your work, BTW.
Regards,
--Anders.
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