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Flash highlights

Per Ulrik Pedersen
I'm not a professionel but using CO6 Pro anyway.
I have been facing some limitations when taking portraits with flash. This causes some very light areas in the faces and sometimes there are even burned out.
I'm looking for a way to handle this in CO6. I have tried the color editor giving no result at all and I have tried the local adjustments but this only turns the areas from white to grey (no supprise as red=green=blue). I can use local adjustments to a certain extent if not burned out, but I would appreciate a more acceptable result. In some cases I have been able to handle the burn out areas with the spot removal tool, but it is not perfect.

Any suggestions or do I have to turn to a program offering a kind of cloning?
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Hi NN213301UL,

    Do you shoot in RAW file ?
    And ofcourse when all is burn with a flash or other high ligth, it's very difficult for recover the grain of the skin, there have a limit, no magic for that.
    Also, don't blame the software, becos you can control your ligth flash and in this way do all for don't burn a part of portrait.
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  • Per Ulrik Pedersen
    Hi Tof!

    Yes, I shoot in RAW (NEF format) and I'm aware of the limitations when area is burned out, but as mentioned I have some limited success using spot removals, so it is not all hopeless. What I'm hoping is that there is a by me uncovered potential in CO6.
    I always use my SB900 with the standard bouncer to minimize the consequences.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    I suggest to (slightly) underexpose to prevent burning highlights and recover shadows. There is an excellent tool for that in CO Pro 6: LCC. See the Phase One blog for more details.
    http://blog.phaseone.com/2011/01/13/the ... -hdr-tool/
    When you add some clarity you will gain extraordinary results.
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  • Per Ulrik Pedersen
    Hi Poul!

    Thank you for the help. I will give it a try. Find some friends and take some underexposed images and try to be familiar with the LCC tool.
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