I found that setting up this exercise was harder than it first appeared. My camera only highlights clipping once the picture has been captured. Also finding an appropriate scene that was not too overexposed, thus clipping highlights in all exposures was also tricky.
I eventually went with this dull garden shot. I settled for the initial setting of F5 and 1/125. I concentrated on the brightest rock at the bottom of the frame.
The first shot shows the brightest rock looking at little too bright and detail is missing. There is no particular evidence of a colour cast and colour saturation looks reasonable.
The second picture was taking with an increase in the exposure by moving the aperture to F4. In this shot the detail in the rock has diminished considerably, and there does appear to be a line between the white out areas and the darker areas. Saturation in the rest of the shot looks OK.
The third shot was taken at F5.6. More detail can be seen in the rock but the colour saturation is clearly not as good.
The fourth shot was at F6.3. Again more detail can be seen in the rock but the colour saturation is less and the detail in the shadows is far worse.
The final shot was F7.1, at this stage there is no clipping of highlights in the rock but the picture is very dark and lacks detail in a lot if the darker areas.
The final picture is one that was taken earlier at F4. I have taken the RAW version and used the recovery slider to try and remove the burned out parts of the rock. It has had some success but even on the maximum setting it has still not replaced all the detail.
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