Highlights
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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The brightest or lightest parts of a photograph.
Minimum Highlights
The idea behind shooting with minimum highlights is to use the few highlights you have to great effect, to pick out a detail, make your subject look mysterious or to change their look altogether.
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.
How to stop the highlights, white, or overexposed parts of a photograph from blinking whenever you preview (playback) the image in your LCD screen ...
-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.
Expose To Accentuate Highlights by Russ Burden
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Russ Burden offers you some great tips to really bring out the highlights in your images by properly exposing them.
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Highlights
Highlights are the tones at the higher end of the gray scale, that are as close to white as possible, but still retaining some sense of color (or hue) and detail.
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Highlights The brightest areas of a subject and the corresponding areas in a negative, a print, or a slide.
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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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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Highlights - The brightest parts of a photo.
Histogram - A graphic representation of the range of tones from dark to light in a photo.
Highlights - parts of the pictures having the greater amount of light
Developer - chemical solution used to convert the latent (invisible) image on film into a visible one
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Highlights: The brightest areas of a subject.
ISO Number: A rating of the film's sensitivity to light. The higher the number, the more sensitive or "faster" the film; the lower the number, the less sensitive or "slower" the film.
Highlights
Another major consideration for those shooting digitally is how to handle the highlights. Much like slide film, digital sensors are quite sensitive to light.
Highlights. The brightest parts of an image containing detail.
Hot shoe. A clip on the top of the camera that attaches a flash unit and provides an electrical link to synchronize the flash with the camera shutter.
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.
The highlights (and shadows) of light
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Blown Highlights
In digital photography terminology, blown highlights are areas of a photo that are so bright they are pure white.
[edit] Highlights
Main article: Clipping (photography)
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Clipped highlights
In common with most small sensor compacts, the S80 can struggle to capture the full range of brightnesses in very contrasty scenes.
Highlights
The Highlights are the whitest part of a picture. Normally, they are a very small percentage of the picture, because it's very easy to lose details in highlights.
highlights captured, shadows lost
shadows captured, highlights lost
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8) Highlights recoverable
5) Shadow detail lost; reexpose
Start With A Good Exposure
A primary concern during exposure is ensuring that exposure provides adequate information in deep shadow detail.
16. Highlights/Shadow smoothness retains the sky's natural highlights and shadows in a landscape image.
The highlights of the hair and background are burnt out but, I think in this instance, it gives quite a pleasing effect.
Product Highlights
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Blown out highlights in fashion photography, underexposed dark alleys, blurry drive by shootings, grossly distorted wide angle landscapes are often enhancing the picture, but we are too afraid to try it.
Important highlights vary from situation to situation. In the above example - 2:00pm harsh sunlight - it was important to have detail in the building, clothing, and clouds. I shot it at 1/125 @ f/13, ISO 125, no flash.
Seasonal Highlights: Yellowstone can be the coldest place in the continental United States in winter, with temperatures of -30°F not uncommon.
Blinking Highlights A feature of Nikon digital SLR cameras, the blinking highlights display indicates areas of the photograph in which highlight detail is missing.
4. Avoid Highlights, Gradients and Shadows
This conceptual rule is strictly linked with the next one, but this is about the composition of the logo. Anyway, consider the positive aspects of a logo that lacks highlights, gradients or shadows.
Specular Highlights - This is a reflection from a light source. This usually happens with shiny objects or around the outer edges of images.
Spot Meter - This is a light measuring device which covers a narrow circle of the scene.
Over-bright highlights are a disaster in many digital photographs, because you can't recover detail from them very successfully in the editing process.
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.
Shooting Mode Highlights
Hyper-Program
Hyper-Manual (allows for one-button exposure set)
Sensitivity Priority (allows user to pre-select sensitivity)
Shutter Priority
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Again, in the highlights, the larger number of levels provides more information to deal with. Consequently, Exposure/Brightness can produce better results than in the shadows.
Automation Highlights in red all menu choices dealing with actions, scripting and automation.
Basic Doesn't color any menu commands but hides many of the more advanced features.
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: ...
The Rule of Thirds highlights where areas of interest or lines should be. Interest should lie on these lines, or be centered around the 4 intersections, or hot-spots.
Redraws an image's highlights and midtones with a solid midtone gray back-ground drawn in coarse chalk. Shadow areas are replaced with black diagonal charcoal lines. The charcoal is drawn in the foreground color, the chalk in background color.
(We'll establish the shadows first, and adjust for highlights later).
Tape the strip down, with a small piece of masking tape. This will, hopefully, keep you from moving the strip while you are doing the test.
Set your timer for 2 seconds.
EXPOSURE: I adjust by holding the ALT key (that gives perfect results without blowing my highlights). The screen turns black and by moving the slider I make sure that no color appears in the process.
Shadow detail can be recovered; blown highlights (the pure white areas in an overexposed photo) can never be recovered, as there is nothing there to recover.
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.
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 range between the deepest shadows and very bright highlights is impossible for film or digital sensors to capture.
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.
White Point affects highlights-use caution with it. Black Point adjusts the blacks in the photo-be sure they're strong enough. Gamma affects the midtone brightness and contrast of the image.
One of the main underlying precepts in photography that governs how we take pictures is the ability—or lack of ability—of film or digital sensors to record detail in the highlights and shadows.
Recovery lets you restore clipped highlights without darkening the rest of an image.
Fill light lightens shadow areas without lightening other areas.
With overexposure, highlights are blown out and render no detail. Once this detail is lost, no Photoshop tool can reinvent the missing information. Underexposure is a more subtle problem.
It's a typical high-contrast scene, with overexposed highlights in part of the scarecrow mask and deep dark shadows behind. For the fix, I employed several techniques (Figure-2).
Since our eye tends to know that shadows are black, and expects that, it is usually better to expose for the highlights. If you see dark shadows, that seems normal. We're simply not used to seeing light that's so bright that all detail is lost.
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.
 See also: Highlight, Image, Photograph, Light, Camera
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