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The Landscape Photography Book
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The Landscape Photography Book

by Scott Kelby
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 46m
English
Rocky Nook
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Fixing Damaged Highlights (Clipping)

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About the worst thing that can happen to an image is to blow out (called “clipping”) the highlights. It’s such a big deal that most cameras include a built-in Highlight Warning (see page 31) to let you know if you’re clipping them when you take the shot (and, yes, you should turn this on because with landscape shots, we’re most likely to clip the highlights in clouds, or a waterfall, or snow-capped mountains). If your highlights are clipped, there is no detail at all in those areas. There are literally no pixels, and if you printed the image, those clipped areas wouldn’t have any ink on them. That’s how serious ...

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