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Old 09-23-2007, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by baseballboy828 View Post
The reason to overexpose as much as possible without blowing highlights is because noise is most prevalent in shadows. If you try to brighten a dark image, you'll add noise, whereas if you try to lighten an image that's overexposed but without blown highlights, you'll get a much better result.
You mean darken an image? Otherwise makes sense... One of these days I'll pay attention to my histograms more.
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