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Exploring Highlight Tone Priority

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Exploring Highlight Tone Priority

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Overexposure is the bane of all photographers. When an image is overexposed, highlight areas can blow out to complete detailless white. Underexposure is not as pesky a problem, because if a shadow underexposes to complete black, it often just looks like a really dark shadow. Highlight tone priority is a feature that can dramatically reduce overexposure in an image. Consider this image, which has badly overexposed highlights. Now here's the same image shot with highlight tone priority turned on. Note that the overexposed bits now have detail in them. For JPEG shooters, highlight tone priority can really mean the difference between usable shots and overexposed rejects. Now, as with many really, really good things, there is a price to pay for using highlight tone priority. While your highlights will be better exposed, there is a slight chance that your shadows will have more noise in them; those annoying speckly patterns. So for this reason, highlight tone priority defaults to being…

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