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Subject: [Leica] How to capture gloom
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:58:59 +0200
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i know this is not very helpful in terms of answering the technical 
question, but sometimes when faced with something like this, I simply 
conclude that not everything was meant to be captured on a sensor. A fancy 
way of saying that I give up on the photo and just enjoy the view.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 25 Sep 2019, at 22:32, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Last week I was shooting in a redwood forest that was, for the most part, 
> quite dark and yet there was also quite a bit of light in areas. In 
> another location the entire forest was in deep shade and in another I was 
> walking down a narrow defile with bright sky overhead but shooting wide 
> open I was still at ISO 1600.
> 
> None of my photos convey what I saw in any of these cases. I tried pushing 
> the exposure down which didn?t do the job. And I have played with the 
> images in Lightroom, Photoshop to little effect. That sense of darkness 
> and light just isn?t there.
> 
> Any ideas about how to capture this? I?d appreciate your thoughts.
> 
> 
> Adam Bridge
> Davis, CA
> 
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