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CHAPTER 12 WIRELESS FLASH AND ADVANCED FLASH TOPICS ................ 425
12.1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................ 425
12.2 FLASH MODELS ............................................................................ 430
12.3 BOUNCE FLASH ............................................................................ 433
12.3.1 Diffusing your Light ............................................................. 435
12.4 WIRELESS FLASH .......................................................................... 437
12.5 AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS ................................................................... 440
12.6 THE NEW WIRELESS PROTOCOL ...................................................... 443
12.6.1 How to do Ratio Flash ......................................................... 447
12.6.2 Advanced 2- or 3-way Ratio Flash ....................................... 450
12.7 GROUPS AND CHANNELS ................................................................ 455
12.8 WILL THE CONTROL BURSTS AFFECT EXPOSURE? ................................ 455
12.9 MANUAL FLASH MODE.................................................................. 458
12.9.1 To Put the 60 Into Manual Slave Mode ............................... 459
12.9.2 To put the 43 into Manual Slave mode ............................... 459
12.10 A PORTABLE STUDIO SETUP ............................................................ 460
12.11 HIGH SPEED SYNC (HSS) FLASH....................................................... 461
How it works ......................................................................................... 461
12.12 TO PROBE FURTHER ...................................................................... 463

CHAPTER 13 DRO AND HDR ..................................................................... 467
13.1 DYNAMIC RANGE OPTIMIZATION ..................................................... 467
13.1.1 How it Works ....................................................................... 469
13.1.2 More DRO examples ............................................................ 473
13.1.3 Frequently Asked Questions about DRO .............................. 473
13.1.4 So When Does DRO kick in? ................................................. 477
13.1.5 When DRO is bad................................................................. 478
13.1.6 Combining with Sunset Image Style .................................... 479
13.1.7 DRO on Your Computer ....................................................... 480
13.2 HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR) ....................................................... 481
13.3 DRO VS. HDR ............................................................................. 487

CHAPTER 14 DIGITAL IMAGING TOPICS ................................................... 491
14.1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................ 491
14.2 AN INTRODUCTION TO RAW .......................................................... 492
14.3 THE BAYER FILTER AND DEMOSAICING .............................................. 494
14.4 HOW YOUR CAMERA CREATES A JPG .............................................. 500
14.5 RAW, TIF, AND JPG COMPARED .................................................... 502
14.6 JPG COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS........................................................ 505
14.7 ANY OTHER UPSIDES TO SHOOTING .JPG? ........................................ 508
14.8 RAW PROCESSING USING RAWTHERAPEE AND NEATIMAGE ................. 509
14.8.1 Step 1: Convert the RAW File ............................................... 510