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Took this photo last week. In post i noticed the 'banding' in the photo. A sort of wrinkles. It happened before, but i don't know what is causing it. Shot this one at F4, and it's definitely not something that occurs a lot. Only in bright white skies and the last time i noticed it in a photo from my Q2M, it was with mist as well. Any ideas?

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Okay...I'll try.

I think the reason no one is responding is it looks pretty normal.

Mist in the atmosphere is not a completely consistent entity...it's not like a blank sheet of white paper.  It has eddies and differences in density that will show as different exposure values when backlit as in this sample.

Looks perfectly normal to me...at least on my screen.

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Looks ok to me as well. I suppose what you could have been seeing in post processing was the effects of posterisation if the tonal range has been stretched which will cause banding, explained here

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/posterization.htm

For example if you take the misty photo and increase the contrast in Photoshop banding/ posterisation appears across the photograph.

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On 10/27/2022 at 6:05 PM, Farrell Gallery said:

Banding is usually from electronic shutter in conflict with frequency of indoor lights. I see nothing wrong here…how are you processing, if at all? 

The weird thing is that i'm not seeing it at all now too.....

But it was there when i processed the photos in Lightroom. So weird. Maybe it's the screen of my mac, playing tricks with me. Very weird

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On 10/27/2022 at 6:05 PM, Farrell Gallery said:

Banding is usually from electronic shutter in conflict with frequency of indoor lights. I see nothing wrong here…how are you processing, if at all? 

I process all my photos in Lightroom, and then only remove a bit of hightlights, pull up the shadows a little when necessary and burn the blacks. Nothing more

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Sometimes, if your processor and screen are struggling to render a large image, or one with a lot of edits, it will posterise it a bit, which is most obvious in large uniform areas. If your system really is struggling with processing power it may get stuck for quite a long time. If it happens again, shut everything down (clearing ram, buffers etc) and restart. Lightroom has a history of poor management of ram (the current version seems OK in that respect, though).

The good news is that such rendering/display issues don't seem to affect outputs, such as exported jpgs or prints.

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