Digital "Veil" of Death

[lad_lueck]

<p>The OP's concern is that digital is incorrectly recording the scene, creating a 'veil'.<br>

That isn't true. Digital IS correctly recording the (lack of) contrast in the scene. Digital is NOT creating veiled mid-tones. It's your eye/brain image processing that 'focuses' on a small part of the scene when you're standing there, and showing you high contrast in a very tiny area of the whole 180 degree scene that your peripheral vision takes in.<br>

And the correct response of the photographer is to alter the tone curve to increase the local contrast so as to make an enjoyable image.</p>

[lad_lueck]

<p>Here's a single tone-curve adjustment as a quick example:</p>

<p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4392964488_b04633afe7_o.jpg" alt="" width="850" height="531" /></p>