The phone, or any camera, has limited dynamic range. The focus point also controls the exposure, as to get proper exposure of the subject. If you forced the camera to expose the background correctly (which you can do on DSLRs and the likes, and maybe even your phone), your knife would be under exposed.Wartstein wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:52 pmThanks, guys! :)..was just a quick shot while trail running yesterday.legOFwhat? wrote:Absolutely stunning Gernot!
One thing I just can´t figure out concerning cell phone pics like this one: As soon as I focus on the knife, the background gets overexposed.
I can get the lighting right only if I focus on the background and not the knife, but than the latter gets blurry...
Dedicated cameras with larger sensors tend to have better DR, but no camera is yet equal to the human eye.
There are also some techniques, like HDR (high dynamic range) that can be used to work around the limitations of the sensor. This is basically just multiple identical pictures with different exposure setting, mixed together. Some cameras have this feature built in, and on some you have to do it in post processing, either way you are limited to static photos where framing and motif doesn't change between each exposure.
Oh, and thanks for all the great pictures. They are beautiful and inspiring.
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