John Williams

Thanks Jim and Ed!

E-mail I received in response to this article brought up an additional point that may be helpful as you experiment with narrow transition blending. Blending for dynamic range this way often results in a very flat image. Remember that by definition you are reducing contrast; you must make the plugged shadows lighter and the blown highlights darker. In fact, to help reduce this contrast before the steps noted in the article, I always turn off the contrast and brightness settings in my raw converter by changing the defaults to zero. Because b