Highlight Clipping

For this exercise, I took a number of images outside the villa that we were staying in on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The scene was of the road where the villa was taken in early evening when the sun was still very high and the image consisted of trees and sky. The images were taken in JPEG format.

The following sets out the results:

• f/18: very slight highlighting of sky
• f/20: no clipping - sky and clouds clear on image but foreground very dark
• f/16: increased clipping of white clouds; foreground has more detail
• f/14: substantially more clipping but foregroung clearer
• f/13: as for f/14
• f/11: as for f/14

None of the images were what I would have been very happy with. As  a compromise, I would have accepted the image taken at f/14 but this was personal preference as the sky was not as wasjed out as it was with the image taken at f/11.

If I had taken the images in Raw, I would have used Photoshop to try and lighten the foreground without damaging the detail in the sky.

This exercise was conducted on the 15th April 2012 but only written up on the 5th June 2012