Monochrome film photographers routinely handle well over 16 stops of light. Digital ... not so much. They resort to HDR techniques like this: http://www.perfectphotoblog.com/high-dynamic-range-images-hdri-before-and-after-landscapes/1201/ I judge these to be quite beautiful but ... they don't look "real" to me. To my eye they seem more "surreal". So, here's the question: Is this a byproduct of the digital manipulation process OR are we so used to seeing color without a lot of dynamic range (even color film is pretty limited by comparison to B&W) that when we see a full dynamic range color image it seems "fake". Discuss amongst yourselves... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.