Overexposure
Dec 5, 2011 20:55:22 #
Finally, a sunny December day not far from Seattle, and a heron posing just for me. Unfortunately, I left my camera setting on "cloudy" and I have oodles of wonderful pics that are over exposed. Are there adjustments in either PSE or Lightroom to fix this?
Dec 5, 2011 20:56:45 #
Dec 5, 2011 22:16:56 #
PSE, Enhance - Adjust Lighting - Highlights/Shadows. I tried it out, and it helps a lot; but is no cure all. Over exposures are harder to deal with, than moderate under exposures.
Dec 5, 2011 23:23:24 #
MainStreet Business
Loc: Butler, MO
If you are shooting in RAW + JPEG you can open the RAW photo and reset your White Balance and exposure. That should totaly fix it.
If you shot in JPEG only, your choices are limited
If you shot in JPEG only, your choices are limited
Dec 5, 2011 23:23:26 #
The cloudy setting adjust White Balance, shouldn't effect exposure at all. The bird and grass is over because of the darkness of the water...your camera tried to "balance" the scene.
Dec 5, 2011 23:25:12 #
MainStreet Business
Loc: Butler, MO
I hope you shot in RAW as well because that is such a GREAT shot.
Dec 6, 2011 00:25:26 #
Mark Bski wrote:
Finally, a sunny December day not far from Seattle, and a heron posing just for me. Unfortunately, I left my camera setting on "cloudy" and I have oodles of wonderful pics that are over exposed. Are there adjustments in either PSE or Lightroom to fix this?
I played around in PSE10 & Topaz. With your permission I will repost it.
Bob
Dec 6, 2011 08:46:31 #
wolfman wrote:
I played around in PSE10 & Topaz. With your permission I will repost it.
Bob
Mark Bski wrote:
Finally, a sunny December day not far from Seattle, and a heron posing just for me. Unfortunately, I left my camera setting on "cloudy" and I have oodles of wonderful pics that are over exposed. Are there adjustments in either PSE or Lightroom to fix this?
I played around in PSE10 & Topaz. With your permission I will repost it.
Bob
Bob, thanks for your work. Go ahead and repost, I would love to see what you've done.
Dec 6, 2011 08:48:12 #
dfalk wrote:
The cloudy setting adjust White Balance, shouldn't effect exposure at all. The bird and grass is over because of the darkness of the water...your camera tried to "balance" the scene.
I think you hit the nail on the head right there. Thanks for your input, I should have seen it myself, but I guess it is all part of the learning curve.
Dec 6, 2011 09:01:09 #
First off I opened the image up in PSE10, and using the content aware brush, removed the shadows. Then I went into Topaz Adjust 5, a plug-in for Elements and Photoshop, made a few minor adjustments one of which was saturation. To reduce the overexposure problem I used the burn tool to darken the bright areas in the photo.
Dec 6, 2011 09:32:03 #
wolfman wrote:
First off I opened the image up in PSE10, and using the content aware brush, removed the shadows. Then I went into Topaz Adjust 5, a plug-in for Elements and Photoshop, made a few minor adjustments one of which was saturation. To reduce the overexposure problem I used the burn tool to darken the bright areas in the photo.
Thanks Wolfman, nice job. I need to check out Topaz.
Dec 6, 2011 09:43:04 #
Mark Bski wrote:
Thanks Wolfman, nice job. I need to check out Topaz.
wolfman wrote:
First off I opened the image up in PSE10, and using the content aware brush, removed the shadows. Then I went into Topaz Adjust 5, a plug-in for Elements and Photoshop, made a few minor adjustments one of which was saturation. To reduce the overexposure problem I used the burn tool to darken the bright areas in the photo.
Thanks Wolfman, nice job. I need to check out Topaz.
It's a great plug-in. Right now it's 15% off the reg. price of 49.99. If you sign up at their wesite for future webinars they usually will send you a follow up e-mail with a 30% discount for all the plug-ins they offer.
Dec 6, 2011 10:12:30 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
Mark Bski wrote:
Finally, a sunny December day not far from Seattle, and a heron posing just for me. Unfortunately, I left my camera setting on "cloudy" and I have oodles of wonderful pics that are over exposed. Are there adjustments in either PSE or Lightroom to fix this?
Someone already commented correctly on the white balance issue - and yes you probably did overexpose a bit - but in MHO the best solution is NOT more software to "fix a problem" but rather learn to compose and learn to notice the light.......human mistake - plain and simple and there will be more sunny days in Seattle
Dec 7, 2011 00:04:07 #
Dec 7, 2011 19:33:58 #
Turbo wrote:
Just cropped it a bit and modified the contrast
just a thought-- try cropping a little more on the left and right to make a vertical composition. might be really dramatic! pkanter
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