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                                            LIGHTING THE UN-LIGHTABLE.


                                              That  was a question I had         out” to the camera, the brain
                                              asked many times. In  2005,        simply replaces the areas that
                                              the  year the  NyghtFalcon         lack detail much as we do in
                                              Lighting Methodology  was          Photoshop  using  the  clone
        We have all been                      born, I learned why. In addi-      stamp tool. Unless you know
        there - faced with                    tion to the fact that the cam-     what to look for and what to
        those impossible                      era and the human eye see the      do  to  “fix”  the  problem,  you
        lighting scenarios.                   world very differently, the eye    will be totally disappointed
        these are some fal-                   is connected to the brain and      with the results.
        con has solved.                       what the eye doesn’t see, the      I weighed  my options care-
                                              brain can.  We call this phe-      fully.  Conventional wisdom
                                              nomenon interpolation. So,         says to expose  for the  high-
                                              when the brain sees a floor so     lights and recover detail in
                                              bright that it appears “blown




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