active d lighting?

Can someone explain to me what is active D lighting?

See this post -

www.photographytalk.com/forum/landscape-...itecture-again#99377

Kelly Cook

Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Have tried it twice on my camera and it worked extremely well, it did what it was supposed to do as joves has explained and it did it quickly and painlessly.

Joves wrote: Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Isn't that the point of doing HDR? you take more then one photo, combine as one to balance out the light and dark areas?

JV 06 wrote:

Joves wrote: Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Isn't that the point of doing HDR? you take more then one photo, combine as one to balance out the light and dark areas?

Theres more than one way of skinning a cat

JV 06 wrote:

Joves wrote: Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Isn't that the point of doing HDR? you take more then one photo, combine as one to balance out the light and dark areas?

Yes, D-lighting is a milder form of HDR. And D-lighting can be applied to any image, single frame. HDR shots usually need some advance setup, unless your camera body has a HDR feature. Even then you still need to wait for the multiple frames to run off. So HDR is problematic for action subjects, D-lighting has no problem there.

Kelly

photobod wrote:

JV 06 wrote:

Joves wrote: Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Isn't that the point of doing HDR? you take more then one photo, combine as one to balance out the light and dark areas?

Theres more than one way of skinning a cat

That is true. lol So which way is easier or should I say better for creating the photo? hdr or d lighting?

KCook wrote:

JV 06 wrote:

Joves wrote: Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Isn't that the point of doing HDR? you take more then one photo, combine as one to balance out the light and dark areas?

Yes, D-lighting is a milder form of HDR. And D-lighting can be applied to any image, single frame. HDR shots usually need some advance setup, unless your camera body has a HDR feature. Even then you still need to wait for the multiple frames to run off. So HDR is problematic for action subjects, D-lighting has no problem there.

Kelly

I guess my question was answer before I asked it. Thanks Kelly.

JV 06 wrote:

photobod wrote:

JV 06 wrote:

Joves wrote: Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Isn't that the point of doing HDR? you take more then one photo, combine as one to balance out the light and dark areas?

Theres more than one way of skinning a cat

That is true. lol So which way is easier or should I say better for creating the photo? hdr or d lighting?

Guess its just a personal preference, with d-lighting you are totaly in the hands of the camera, with hdr you are more in control.

photobod wrote:

JV 06 wrote:

photobod wrote:

JV 06 wrote:

Joves wrote: Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Isn't that the point of doing HDR? you take more then one photo, combine as one to balance out the light and dark areas?

Theres more than one way of skinning a cat

That is true. lol So which way is easier or should I say better for creating the photo? hdr or d lighting?

Guess its just a personal preference, with d-lighting you are totaly in the hands of the camera, with hdr you are more in control.

I've never tried hdr or d lighting. However I do like the more control part.

On the cameras that can do d lighting, does the camera save the d lighting version as is, or a 2nd version of that image? I would hate it if the d lighting overwrote the original image.

JV 06 wrote:

photobod wrote:

JV 06 wrote:

photobod wrote:

JV 06 wrote:

Joves wrote: Active D-Lighting is supposed to balance out the light and dark areas in your photos. I never use it myself.

Isn't that the point of doing HDR? you take more then one photo, combine as one to balance out the light and dark areas?

Theres more than one way of skinning a cat

That is true. lol So which way is easier or should I say better for creating the photo? hdr or d lighting?

Guess its just a personal preference, with d-lighting you are totaly in the hands of the camera, with hdr you are more in control.

I've never tried hdr or d lighting. However I do like the more control part.

On the cameras that can do d lighting, does the camera save the d lighting version as is, or a 2nd version of that image? I would hate it if the d lighting overwrote the original image.

Saves both images

If RAW, the image data is unaffected. The RAW file also contains the D-lighting tag, so your conversion software knows to apply this for display. For JPG (instead of RAW) I would expect the Active D-lighting to be permanent. With the brand specific editors you can usually add this treatment in editing, even to images that did not have this set when they were taken. Nikon labels this D-lighting. Canon actually splits this between two controls, Highlight Priority and Auto Lighting. Sony calls it DRO. The Canon and Sony versions are generally milder than Nikon.

Kelly