Lightroom Sliders and high DR cameras

[DaveCurtis]

I just bought a Sony A7R2 and now notice that the shadow slider especially, doesnt give me enough latitude for adjustment. There is probably more detail I can squeeze out of the file.

Perhaps Adobe needs to give us more adjustment headroom especially with wider DR cameras coming online.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

You can apply multiple and cumulative shadow adjustments via brushes and graduated filters.

[DaveCurtis]

Thanks Slobodan. That's what I've been doing.

[eliedinur]

There are also two curve editors.

[Redcrown]

The Highlight and Shadow recovery adjustments in LR/ACR are highly image dependent. The maximum amount they will recover depends on the overall balance of shadows vs highlights in an image. So, what appears to you as a lack of latitude with the Sony may just be due to the highlight/shadow balance in the image.

This "mystery" was discussed in my post here:
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=100300.msg821394#msg821394

The most important lesson there was that, in special cases, you can drop back to "Process 2010" to get more powerful highlight and shadow recovery when needed.

[DaveCurtis]

The Highlight and Shadow recovery adjustments in LR/ACR are highly image dependent. The maximum amount they will recover depends on the overall balance of shadows vs highlights in an image. So, what appears to you as a lack of latitude with the Sony may just be due to the highlight/shadow balance in the image.

This "mystery" was discussed in my post here:
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=100300.msg821394#msg821394

The most important lesson there was that, in special cases, you can drop back to "Process 2010" to get more powerful highlight and shadow recovery when needed.

Interesting Thanks