C & C Photos with face shadows
I take a lot of photos of the kids wake boarding , tubing, etc. If the sun is in the right direction things are fine, if behind then the faces are too dark. Attached is an original and variant . With the variant I changed the exposure, brightness and shadow. Need to level and crop, but how would you make changes to get face exposure correct and white water correct.
Normally I would have a RAW file but had reset the a6000 and forget to add RAW, so jpg fine. The camera was an a6000 and TAMRON 35 - 135mm BBAR MC vintage lens. Manual focus.
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Normally I would have a RAW file but had reset the a6000 and forget to add RAW, so jpg fine. The camera was an a6000 and TAMRON 35 - 135mm BBAR MC vintage lens. Manual focus.
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How do I get my 2 photos to show up 0 -
[quote="NNN636223405860662750" wrote:
How do I get my 2 photos to show up
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Two photo's posted Flicker @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/hewitt201 ... ed-public/. The first is the original and the second is slightly modified. I would like to have the faces / shadows much brighter. And suggestions are more than welcome. Feel free to upload a copy, make modification's and repost or send me a copy. All pictures are private use and are not sold or marketed. 0 -
This sounds like a time to be using a local adjustment. So you could add an adjustment layer in the local adjustments tab, call it "John" or whatever the guy's name is. Then with that layer selected pull up the exposure a bit and paint the adjustment onto the guy's body with a suitable sized brush. You can then adjust the exposure slider if you are getting too much or too little. It would work better on a raw file, but it can be done with a JPG.
You might then add separate layers for the girl, and the waves as they may want more or less of the adjustment.
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You can do it with Local adjustment but... it would much easier if you used a flash when you capture the image [quote="NNN636223405860662750" wrote:
Two photo's posted Flicker @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/hewitt201 ... ed-public/. The first is the original and the second is slightly modified. I would like to have the faces / shadows much brighter. And suggestions are more than welcome. Feel free to upload a copy, make modification's and repost or send me a copy. All pictures are private use and are not sold or marketed.0 -
Flash may not be too practical at the beach!
Here is an attempt at doing what I suggested earlier.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4313/35588000910_c6f474b43b_c.jpg
Starting with a raw file would give better results. I have used separate local adjustment layers for the guy, the girl, the guy's shorts, the lifejacket and the foam. I've mainly increased exposure selectively, also extra contrast on the shorts and extra brightness and saturation on the lifejacket. You could brighten it all a bit more, but it begins to look a bit too fake. (It looks a bit fake now, really.) Also I removed some dust marks from the sky.
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If possible start with the RAW file of course as there will be more data to work with offering a potentially smoother result.
However in principle my starting point would the the HDR tool to lift shadows across the image thus retaining balance. It works with your unedited jpg in this case although the amount of adjustment required will tend to introduce "noise".
You can mask it for a local area if you wish to go further that a single pass offers for a particular image but I find the balanced look across the entire image is usually a better starting point since the image is mostly dark only where you want to lighten it - a self defining situation in this case!
A Luma curve may also prove beneficial but once again you would have more control working from the RAW file.
However I would agree that fill flash would be a good way to go although it may need some rather serious levels of power to make it work. And highly organised and managed shoot probably with a team of people using weather proof equipment!
With that amount of change huge prints or deep crops (much the same thing) probably won't work out too well. A heavy use of "styling" might work around that as a limitation. (Obviously that is a matter of personal choice but seems to be popular in some places and some age groups!)
HTH.
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