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Terrific conversion and a very dramatic image...

Unfortunately, there are just situations where the contrast ratio is so great that no film or sensor is able to hold everything in one shot.

Your options are:
1) Bracket and Blend ? Shoot a series of images starting with one that holds the shadows OR the highlights and then works up/down toward the other extreme.  Then in post you layer them up and use masks to blend all the exposures together.

2) High Dynamic Range (HDR) If you?re faced with an exposure situation requiring 15 stops but your camera can only handle 12, then you shoot one frame that holds the shadows up to where in clips and one that holds the highlights down to where the blacks crush.  You can blend them manually in PS or feed them to dedicated HDR software to figure out where the crossover point is located.

3) Identify that you?re in a contrast ratio situation your sensor can?t handle, admit that you don?t want to go through the hassle of building a Frankenframe in post and ?settle? for something ?artsy?

4) Wait until the light isn?t so harsh.  Twice a day the contrast ratio is essentially a straight line as night gives way to day and then as day gives way to night.  This means there are times each day when the whites and blacks (highlights and shadows) aren?t an extreme number of stops apart.

In the earliest days of digital, you often had to expose for the shadows and let the highlights go because any attempt to recover shadow detail meant instant noise and other funky artifacts in the dark areas.  The newest sensors though have turned that thinking on its head.  With the R5, I will expose for the highlights and I can safely push the shadows 3, 4 and even 5 stops in some cases.  It?s a whole new ballgame!

It?s primarily a workshop for the USFS-certified ?Lead In? ships that guide tankers to their drop zones so you?ll get Barons and King Airs but you?ll also often get OV-10s from CalFire along with C-1 Traders (former NAVY COD / ASW platforms)

And then there can be an eclectic mix of actual tankers as well.

They have four or five zones marked in the NOTAM so stuff should be coming and going pretty regularly.

They won?t be dropping within sight of Willie so far as I know.  They are out east of the Sups.

Or layer the different ?exposures? and paint in the replacement via a mask?

Returning to Willie Feb 20 to March 20

Stout conversion dude!

I like plane butts and I can not lie

Love the effect Joe.  It?s one that many forget about but it?s actually simple to do.

Chandlers F-86D is now at Veterans Oasis Park as part of a new Field Of Honor constructed in the SW corner of the park.

Visited there at dusk with Joe and Dave the other evening.  I shot a Holy Grail timelapse and made a little 4K YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/gCOa6JyKBQw

RF 22-1 is going on right now.

Fujiesque

Black Helos ARE real!!!

Most Excellent!

Well snagged Ned!

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