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The brightest or lightest parts of a photograph. The brightest ares of the subject, represented on a negative by dense deposits of black metallic silver, but reproducing as bright areas on the positive print.
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8.2-megapixel, 22.5 x 15.0mm, 12-bit RGB CMOS sensor delivering 3,504 x 2,336-pixel images.
Single-lens reflex digital camera with interchangeable lenses (supports all Canon EOS series lenses, plus new EF-S, short back focus lenses).

Highlight Warning
One thing you want to avoid is overexposing highlights so they become so bright, or "clipped", they loose details. To help you avoid this many cameras a highlight warning when you review your images.

Highlights
Techniques Glossary Highlights
The brightest or lightest parts of a photograph.

The Highlight controls are basically the same. Amount determines how much the highlights are darkened. Tonal width determines how wide of a tonal range is affected.

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However, blown highlights do happen in color photography as well, and when properly handled they're entirely acceptable. IMO the thing to watch out for is blown out *areas* -- like the entire sky, large swathes of sunlit area, and so on.

Camera Raw CS3: Highlight Recovery and Fill Light
Having stayed relatively the same for the last couple of releases, Camera Raw users had likely grown used to the standard Exposure, Shadows, ...

-Out-of-focus highlights caused by a mirror lens. mirror lens element at the center of the front glass plate. In turn, the mirror lens reflects the light back through a hole in the concave mirror to a focus on the film.

Highlight Tone Priority
In common with most of the latest generation of EOS SLRs the Mark III sports Canon's new Highlight Tone Priority, designed to deliver more highlight range. It's available via C.

Highlight Detail
The two adjacent shaded bands at each outer edge of this page should be just barely distinguishable. Otherwise you've likely reached the limit of what brightness/contrast adjustments alone can achieve.

Highlights
Small, very bright part of image or object. Highlights should generally be pure white, although the term is sometimes used to describe the lightest tones of a picture, which, in that case, may need to contain some detail.
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Highlight autumn colours in a mono conversion using Photoshop
Use this technique to spot colour an autumn scene and create a really striking shot
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Highlight details. A telephoto lens can focus on a specific detail of your subject. In addition, it can isolate the subject from a distracting background, making the details even more pronounced.

HIGHLIGHT - The brightest area of a subject or scene.
HIGHLIGHT DETAIL - Details that are visible in areas of an image that are brightest.

Highlights
The brightest areas of the subject or photograph.
Hold-back (shading)
Photo printing method to make parts of a picture lighter than it would normally have been.
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Highlight staining occurs with older color photographic papers, and is a yellowing of the border and highlight areas of a photograph.
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Highlight. A very light area in a scene, print, or transparency; a very dense, dark area in a negative. Also called a high value.

Highlights
The brightest areas of a subject and the corresponding areas in a negative, a print, or a slide.

highlight density
the density of a halftone negative or positive that ultimately result in the printing of the highlight area.
highlight dot
the largest dot in the film negative or the smallest dot in the film positive.

Highlights: The brightest parts of a photo.
Histogram: A graphic representation of the range of tones from dark to light in a photo. Some digital cameras include a histogram feature that enables a precise check on the exposure of the photo.

Highlights
The bright areas of a subject or scene, often the result of gentle Reflections of lights. Strong reflections are called "Kicks" or "hot spots.

Highlights: Area of an original image or reproduction with the smallest printing dots and/or the least density. On a printed sheet, the area with minimum ink coverage.

Highlights - the brightest ares of the subject, represented on a negative by dense deposits of black metallic silver, but reproducing as bright areas on the positive print.

A highlight area which is overexposed will have little or no detail. This area is said to be blocked up.
cf. high key, highlights.
Blonde.

Blown Highlights
In digital photography terminology, blown highlights are areas of a photo that are so bright they are pure white.

Shadow/Highlight
I like Photoshop's Shadow/Highlight adjustment control, but I generally don't use it for the challenges seen in this article. The biggest reason I prefer Multiply and Screen is control.

Tungsten highlights in hair burn to device (or paper) white, clearly showing ramp of warm yellow tones to device white, demonstrating the change that can occur when a color ramp ends in a mismatched white.

Specular highlight
A bright reflection from a light source containing little or no detail. Specular highlight within an image should not be used for Set Whitepoint.

The level highlighted with light grey represents the level that is currently selected (any actions will affect the selected level). The opacity indicator at the top of the list allows you to change how opaque or transparent the selected layer will be.

To return highlighted and selected text, graphics or checkboxes to their unselected state.
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We have a highlight being created on the sides of our subject's face, but this should not be an issue since it is not being overexposed.

Exposed for highlights
Blended image
If you'd like more information on this technique, I highly recommend Photoshop CS Artistry, which has an entire chapter devoted to using it for landscape photography.

In this image I highlighted the spacing in the image and how it could be viewed on The Rule of Thirds grid:
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On Web pages, a highlighted bit of text that, when selected, jumps the reader to another location.
hypertext
A method or organizing text that allows it to be accessed in a non-linear fashion.

2. Adjust for the highlights. We want to move the white marker to the first group of bright pixels. In this case, we move the white marker to the left to a point where we feel the first bright group of pixels start, around the 172 mark: ...

We can see how the highlights on the clock face and glass have been improved by softening the light with the LiteIgloo. We can see all the detail and have a pleasing overall contrast level.
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As the polaroid begins to develop, use a bluntly pointed tool (bone scraper, the non-business end of a paint brush, a non-working ball point pen, a butter knife) to etch and delineate areas you'd like to highlight in your composition.

If your highlights are washed out or your shadows are blocked, you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. If you can see detail on the negative, make sure the lab printing your work brings that detail out.
Photos should be well-lit.

The range between the deepest shadows and very bright highlights is impossible for film or digital sensors to capture.

There are times that an electronic flash can be used to overcome problems in natural light to control contrast between highlights and shadows in a scene. In strong light there can be several f-stops difference between highlight and shadow areas.

Dynamic range is the amount of detail your camera can record between highlights and shadows in an image. Scenes that have bright sunlight and deep shadows are said to have a high dynamic range.

The background looks very "nervous" because highlights look like "donuts". Such a lens has two mirrors, a main one which is visible from the outside and a central mirror which reflects the light towards the film.

The old saying with B&W technique is 'expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights' and to some degree this is very good advice.

The modern films that give the best solarized transparencies, with clean highlight areas, are extreme high- contrast films such as Kodalith, Technical Pan, and Ektagraphic HC Slide films.

"Reserve the use of levels to times when you want to limit the output range (ie, reduce contrast by rendering ONLY the highlights OR shadows of the image for special effects, particularly in design), ...

The Rebel XSi has the same Highlight Tone Priority feature as the EOS 40D.

If you don’t like the cost of Lightroom, Bibble Pro is definitely worthy of consideration, but I found that in some instances, when using the highlight recovery feature of Bibble, I would end up with some funky pink or blue highlights.

In addition the blown highlights test results are somewhat suspicious. For my killer red image, the highlights look very good. But for my more moderately red test images, the highlights are blown.

A big group photo taken outside on a sunny day, for example, will tend to produce dark shadows if you avoid blowing out the highlights. But what if you want to bring out important detail in the shadows (say, Aunt Millie's face)?

The title should appear highlighted. Do not double-click. Double-clicking will open the file which is an unnecessary step.

Help them discover selective metering for complex shadow and highlight scenes. Teach them about manually setting their cameras for flash photography by calculating the distance, ISO, and shutter speed against the aperture.

Loss of highlight detail. Although the detail will be present in the negative special printing techniques will be required to render it correctly.
Under Exposure. Loss of shadow detail.

It is vital that all shadow and highlight detail in the slide is retained in the scanned image.

This is a measure of the range of tones between the highlights and shadows in an image. In conventional photography this is measured in stops (a stop equals a factor of 2 in brightness, e.g.

Under-expose the scene by one at least 1 stop to avoid ruining the highlights in the white water. If your shooting digital, and who isn't?...the underexposed area can then be lightened up using Adobe Photoshop Elements.

-Contrast values - perceived difference between the light areas (highlights) and the dark areas (shadows) of a scene. The range of contrast levels between the highlights and the shadows is called Contrast Values.

Negative: An image in which the highlights, colors, and tones are the reverse of those in the actual subject. The film negative can be used to make a positive print.

Adaptive lighting technology - An HP Real Life technology that automatically balances highlights and shadows in high-contrast photos to bring details (such as faces) out of shadows while preserving detail in brightly lit areas.

See also: Image, Light, Camera, Photograph, Color