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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rmpsrpms, post: 4069969, member: 31773&quot;]I agree, they are a bit dark. The reason is that my recommended settings are to set EV to -2/3. This forces the shutter speed to be a bit faster than its normal setting, thereby avoiding blown highlights. To compensate I recommend setting contrast to -4, which helps keep the shadows from going to black. Together these settings result in good &quot;raw material&quot; (assuming good focus, white balance, and framing alignment) for final post-processing. These look like excellent raw material to me, so I will pick one shot to give an example of the post processing which will recover the original exposure values without blowing any highlights or crushing any shadows. First, I&#039;ll show the result of a simple edit in DPPv3, then I&#039;ll explain the changes made:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063717[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here are the adjustments I made in DPPv3:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063718[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the adjustments were done to the histogram. I selected 3 points on the tone curve, and increased them until the overall brightness of the image was good. Then I manually adjusted the black level a small amount (from 0 to 2) and white level a similar amount (from 255 to 230). I could have pushed black a bit higher, and indeed if I moved it to perhaps 4-6, the background (represented by the big spike near 0 in the histogram) would push to all black. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another of my recommendations is to use &quot;neutral&quot; Picture Style, which de-emphasizes color saturation a bit. I increased saturation from 100 to 130 to compensate. I also recommend shooting with sharpness at 0, so a little sharpening to compensate is needed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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