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02/02/2005 11:23:13 AM · #1 |
I took this photo the other day, and I quite like it apart from the totally blown highlights in the background. I tried a bit of burning, but there is no detail at all, so it doesn't turn out well.
I might go to full B&W and see if that helps make it less distracting.
Any other suggestions would be good. |
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02/02/2005 11:41:48 AM · #2 |
| I don't think that it is too bad, but you could improve it. Personally I would try and select the small crowd of people in the forground, inverse the selection and then go from there, making some adjustments. You may be able to dull out the distracting factors. Maybe a little blur or something would work. |
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02/02/2005 11:46:53 AM · #3 |
Select bacground, cut it and than past it back reducing transparency.
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02/02/2005 11:51:13 AM · #4 |
| Sounds like that's worth a try - thanks folks. |
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02/02/2005 11:58:14 AM · #5 |
try using layer adustments.. I had this same problem with a model shoot yesterday.. What I did was layer the background, then on the layer I made sure the background was to my liking, then masked the model on that layer so the properly exposed 'model' would be on the properly exposed background!
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02/02/2005 12:03:49 PM · #6 |
Here are the examples...
before
after
other stuff done to after shot: crop, dodge eyes and teeth, Healing tool for blemishes and complexion
Message edited by author 2005-02-02 17:04:52.
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02/02/2005 01:00:01 PM · #7 |
| Get a selection on the background, copy it to a new layer on top of the original, and set the blend to multiply. That will recover anu highlight that's not TOTALLY blown out. |
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02/02/2005 03:30:40 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Get a selection on the background, copy it to a new layer on top of the original, and set the blend to multiply. That will recover anu highlight that's not TOTALLY blown out. |
thanks for the tip!
joe
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02/02/2005 05:04:22 PM · #9 |
Here's a shot at it. The highlights are so blown I can't do a thing with them that looks realistic. However, by playing with the contrast everywhere else, I can make them see more natural. Part of the problem, for me, was that extreme contrast was creeping into the central image from outside, if that makes sense. See what you think:
original:
Robt.
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02/03/2005 12:12:51 AM · #10 |
Thanks for tips folks. Bear: definitely less obvious, thanks.
I had a play with cutting out the background and it worked to some degree, but the pure white highlights (most of them lol!) aren't going to go away.
Ah well, can't always get what you want. |
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02/03/2005 01:09:29 AM · #11 |
my try... ignore the poor masking :)
duplicated layer and masked to let original people to show throught (not sure what to do with the cap...maybe I should have left it alone)
colorized the layer to put some sort of color data in the blowen highlights
and dropped the brightness down a lot
then desaturated the layer to remove the color but leave the data
then blended it back at 60% opacity
edit forgot this step : then I used USM to fix contrast [ 50 rad, 20% amount, 0 threshold ]
note all edits done with GIMP
this only rough but it is a starting point... see what you can get
Message edited by author 2005-02-03 06:14:59.
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02/03/2005 04:35:32 AM · #12 |
Firsty's technique has some promise for a web image, but it will not work for a print, where the artificiality of the fill on the highlights will be glaringly obvious, unfortunately. Good effort though.
Robt.
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