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deadcactus  Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:44pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
Have a photo or two with an almost pure white sky. Nice sunny day, everything else is perfectly exposed, but I really want to put in a nice blue sky. Suggestions? Just paint it in?
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Stiger  Title: Nerd in Training
Posts: 289
Registered: 2002-9-2 14:24:07
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:44pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
If you shot in RAW, the info might still be there. Maybe. Possibly. 
When you open the file in whatever RAW converter you use, drop the exposure way down to see if you get the detail that you need.
Then:
Expose and process once for everything but the sky. Save the file.
Expose and process once for the sky - lowering the exposure a lot to see if the detail in the sky comes back.
Overlay the two images. Place the dark image on bottom, and the blown out sky image on top. Erase the blown out sky hopefully letting the better looking sky come through.
Does that make any kind of sense?
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deadcactus Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:44pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
Yea, didn't think of playing with the RAW file. I'll try that when I get some time tonight. Thanks.
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GhostOfACPast  Title: The Phantom Curmudgeon
Posts: 115
Registered: 2002-8-5 06:24:26
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:44pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
deadcactus posted:
Yea, didn't think of playing with the RAW file. I'll try that when I get some time tonight. Thanks.
Show us the before and after.
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Raiztlin Title: Dick Tracy
Posts: 397
Registered: 2002-1-23 08:10:37
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:44pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
Open the raw file, edit the way you want it. Save as psd
Open the raw file, edit so that the sky looks good. Save as psd
Open the first psd
Open the second psd
Copy the first psd into the second (so the correctly exposed sky is on top
Use the eraser untill you're happy.
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deadcactus Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:44pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
I was beginning to wonder if I should keep shooting JPEG+RAW or just switch to JPEG. I think I'm going to stick with it after seeing it salvage this picture.
Final Product:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3502711170/
Original:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/deadcactus/IMG_0645.jpg
Reduced Exposure to Bring out Sky:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/deadcactus/IMG_0645-2.jpg
Some Pseudo-HDR:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/deadcactus/cryingAngel-hdr1.jpg
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GhostOfACPast Title: The Phantom Curmudgeon
Posts: 115
Registered: 2002-8-5 06:24:26
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:45pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
Good move as I always tell people to use raw for everything. Not enough room? Buy a bigger memory card as they are dirt cheap nowadays.
Good work DC.
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Stiger Title: Nerd in Training
Posts: 289
Registered: 2002-9-2 14:24:07
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:45pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
Very nice. I really like the final result. Well done.
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deadcactus Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:45pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
Straighten or no? (Accidentally killed the link above, I think.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3503566000/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3503567338/
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Ah-Schoo  Title: Fuzzy Caterpillar of Friendliness
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Registered: 2000-8-11 09:05:29
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Date Posted:
5/4/09 12:45pm
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Any good tricks for brining back an overexposed sky? |
Straighten yes.
Nice work though, I like the result.
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