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Photo Taco: Photographic Dynamic Range

Master Photography

Master Photography Team

Technology, How To, Visual Arts, Arts, Education

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Harmon talks with Bill Claff about his Photographic Dynamic Range testing and math that can be seen on his photonstophotos.net website. Jeff goes over the following questions with Bill: 1) Who is Bill Claff and what do you do with photography? 2) What is the story or background of your excellent photonstophotos.net website? Why did you create it? 3)You ...

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0:00.0

Welcome to Photo Taco, the photo taco, the only show with photography tips you can learn in the time it takes to eat a taco, Or perhaps a burrito.

0:13.0

Photo taco.

0:14.0

Hey everybody welcome into another episode of photo taco on the

0:17.1

improved photography network. I'm your host Jeff Harmon. Thanks for

0:19.9

spending a few minutes of your day with me. In today's episode, I am joined by very special guest, Bill Claff.

0:26.1

We will touch on Bill's background in just a moment,

0:28.4

but I asked him to come on the show

0:29.8

so that we could do a deep dive into some science and math behind his photographic dynamic

0:35.1

range data you can see over at his cool site photons to photos net that's not

0:40.6

photos to photos photons Photons to photos.

0:44.2

And I made that mistake when I was first going over

0:46.5

to the site based on a listener recommendation.

0:48.4

So make sure you get that right.

0:49.4

Photons to photos.

0:50.7

That will go over that again at the end of the show. Before we start, the reason I wanted to Photos. net. We'll go over that again at the end of the show. Before we start, the reason I wanted

0:54.6

to go into this with Bill today is the whole concept of dynamic range. Now we regularly

1:00.2

discuss dynamic range on all of the improved photography

1:02.8

podcasts and you'll hear it across any photography-based

1:06.7

podcast episode along with articles.

1:09.1

It's constantly discussed, but we talk about it in fairly abstract ways, and that's kind of bothered me.

1:15.8

We generally say that dynamic range is how much of a scene can be captured from the brightest

1:21.3

brights to the darkest darks and how it is that some

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