[davidmanze]

I was talking about the odd shadow lifting fad, and you bend it into lifting exposure to save a messed up image? Not exactly the same thing, now is it.

 

I would not use the word fad to describe lifting the shadows in shots of extreme contrast, eg. shooting an interior with bright light shinning through windows and doors. To be able in PP to produce an image so as to not have a featureless dark interior set against a blown out outside world may be recently possible,..... but it isn't a fad..... it's here to stay...not even the most perfect exposure could achieve it straight off the bat!