dmu Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I took a great shot of an Egret flying over dark water. His back and the top of his neck and head are overexposed. When I bring the image up in Canon's Digital Photo Pro, and choose the linear option for fixing the exposure, the whole picture darkens, and I can see feathers on the back. This means that the detail is there, just overexposed. How can I fix the egrets back and neck to see those feathers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernardwest Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Hi Darren. If you had Lightroom, this would be very easy to fix. With DPP you will probably have to develop the Raw file twice, once for highlights and once for everything else, and then merge them in photoshop using layers and masks. The trick is to keep some contrast in the highlights so they don't look too flat once rescued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattholmes Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Fastest easiest way would be to open the image in the new bridge cs3 and use try the recover slider. Next easiest option: open it in photoshop and mess around with the sliders in the shadow/highlight tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmu Posted September 19, 2007 Author Share Posted September 19, 2007 Thanks, I will try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_simonds Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Darrin, you should also try curves in the "luminosity" setting. Sometimes the "auto" function does wonderful things. On occasion it is better than the Shadow/Highlight tool that Matt suggests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldog Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Its not over exposed if you retain the highlight detail you wish. It might look over exposed with one set of default rendering settings but by pulling the exposure slider down, IF you can now see all the detail you wish, it was properly exposed. True over exposure is highlight detail you wanted to capture that isn't able to be rendered at any setting because of sensor over saturation (over exposure) http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml Andrew Rodney Author "Color Management for Photographers" Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management" (pluralsight.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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