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Digital Monochrome - part 2 of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

by Paul Gallagher Published 01/02/2012

Fig 2 What I now decide is if I need to crop any of the image. The aspect ratio of Nikon digital files is often too long and narrow for me so I quite often opt to crop. On this occasion the area of sky that shows red highlight clipping can go, as the sky can never added anything to the composition anyway. Secondly, the foreground has an annoying rock peeking into the bottom of the frame so I decided to crop that as well.

Fig 3 With the cropping complete I now had very little highlight clipping to worry about and my main concern was the shadow clipping. Beginning with the highlight, I used the 'recovery' slider to eliminate the residual clipping and bring back the highlight details in the moving water.

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