>>4481100btw the higlights are blown in this one - look at the ball.
i have also experimented with... severe schizoid highlight preservation, to the point that i sometimes use an edited "isoless" picture profile in my camera (blown highlights show as black, everything else is +5EV; its kinda hard to see anything when youre exposing for the only light point in the room lol), and then process the image with a +5EV mask over the whole thing while using the usual control panel in camera raw (so sometimes im like +10EV compared to the raw)... it can (and it will) get real crusty, but i have never been afraid of noise in situations where you dont want the lights to blow everything out.
>https://github.com/horshack-dpreview/NikonPictureControlsDevpicrel is a shot at 1/500, iso100, f1.8, exposed so that the lights are barely clipping.
