Ok, then I guess I'll just have to use a color image.
selmslie wrote:
It's really easy to convert an image to dramatic B&W when the shot includes the blue sky. I don't have a sample that includes clouds but here is one of an egret.
The original image has a very narrow DR despite being taken in broad daylight. You can see from the RawDigger histograms that, assuming that middle gray is within the 1000-2000 range, it falls naturally from about exposure zone III to the middle of exposure zone VIII.
It was exposed without metering, on manual per the Sunny 16 rule at ISO 400, 1/800 @ f/11.
With Active-D lighting I would have had to expose about 1/2 stop less to avoid the blinkies. But this demonstration is academic. If I had wanted a B&W image I would have simply captured the image on film, Fuji Across 100.
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