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blown out window.
I took a shot earlier. The model is sitting in front of an open window. It was dark in this barn thing we were in, so I have high ISO, had to drag the shutter etc. The model and everything is exposed correctly, but the outside part through the window is completely blown out. It's pure white except a few leafs and whatnot. Any way to fix this? I can post the picture tomorrow if that helps. Aug 18 13 10:04 pm Link this depends on how badly the background is blown out. If you shoot in RAW, try saving a copy of the original image, and then take it into Photoshop. In Camera RAW, try under exposing the image with the exposure slider until you see details pop out in the blown out area. If you get anything useful out of it, open the image in Photoshop, and save a copy as a .tif. Open the properly exposed version of the model in the barn, and then copy that layer. Paste it onto the same work space as your other under exposed image, and then mask out the barn area being careful to leave your model and the barn. The result will hopefully have what you are after. If there is not any detail in the blown out area after attempting to underexpose in camera raw, then unfortunately not much can be done short of bracketing your exposure to take an average of the ambient and interior next time, or simply set up on a tripod and take a shot with proper exposure for outside, and proper exposure for your model and interior to composite. good luck Aug 18 13 10:19 pm Link Other than invent something or steal it from another shot and comp it in? Probably not. Aug 18 13 10:24 pm Link take 2 shots...expose one with the model, and one with the light, photoshop it..Mo Aug 18 13 10:24 pm Link Charlie-CNP wrote: Instead of having him do more work and add excessive layers, why not just suggest that he quick select/lasso the window and make adjustments with exposure there? Can probably curve it to fit in fairly easy. Aug 18 13 11:43 pm Link Look at the histogram, if it is all the way to the right in that area, then there is nothing you can do. When you overexpose in digital and go to 255, that is it, everything is lost. Aug 18 13 11:51 pm Link Try to market yourself in Korea.. they LOVE blown out windows here.. it's so depressing. alternatively next time expose for the window and use lights to expose the model. Aug 19 13 01:00 am Link mophotoart wrote: This is actually what I nearly always do, even if I don't use the window shot in the end - and sometimes if I do use it I will white it out a little so it's not too obtrusive. But that's hindsight for the OP, and doesn't help one bit. Aug 19 13 01:19 am Link ShotbyRon wrote: Yes, please. Aug 19 13 06:11 am Link Charlie-CNP wrote: try Aperture from Apple is much better at exposure. If you don't have Mac or Aperture, send me and I'll try for you. Aug 19 13 06:26 am Link The best way to fix this would have been to light your subject with strobes and then balanced the strobe exposure and the ambient outside exposure......... Aug 19 13 06:43 am Link Stolen Fate Design wrote: Because the jpeg or psd file won't have any info in the blown out window to curve... the info was lost in the conversion from raw... it's just white space. However if he does it in raw the info is there and underexposing a second version will bring that info back in most cases. Aug 19 13 06:55 am Link K E E L I N G wrote: My guess would be that even in raw there will not be any information in the window to save.......the dynamic range will just be too great. Aug 19 13 07:13 am Link Studio 12 wrote: In most cases, but in raw there's a better chance. Aug 19 13 07:18 am Link dp Aug 19 13 07:25 am Link mophotoart wrote: Yep! or HDR, or expose for the window and hit your model with a reflector. Aug 19 13 07:26 am Link Charlie-CNP wrote: I will try this thanks. Aug 19 13 07:47 am Link ShotbyRon wrote: Windows into dark spaces also make fantastic off-camera light sources. Pose the model so that at least half of the window is above her face to avoid rising nose shadows. ShotbyRon wrote: Would like to see it. Aug 19 13 09:11 am Link  Aug 19 13 10:53 am Link Studio 12 wrote: +1 Aug 19 13 11:22 am Link If I was you I will change the background, in the window area, and replace it with something more interesting. in other words mask out the blown out areas and add new BG. Aug 19 13 11:26 am Link What is outside the window that is so important and how would that contribute to the photograph? Aug 19 13 11:34 am Link You could just patch in some green foliage to cover the blown areas. And maybe also throw a little more light on the model.  Aug 19 13 12:57 pm Link I don't worry about blown out windows, that is the way the eye sees it. In some cases it adds to the image. Its done in films all the time, its natural. Aug 19 13 01:53 pm Link Peano wrote: some how what I was trying to say, nice job. Aug 19 13 06:17 pm Link I would leave it like it is rather than going with an edit that looks unnatural. Aug 19 13 09:54 pm Link Brian T Rickey wrote: Done carefully on a high-res image, it won't look unnatural. My post was just a quick illustration using a 750px image. Aug 20 13 06:50 am Link I would just edit out the truck tire in the background and leave the rest as is. Aug 20 13 07:04 am Link And here I thought some don't care about DR..  Expose the background and then use strobe to balance out the dark areas. (i.e. underexpose the scene so that the bright areas are exposed correctly and then use strobes to brighten up the dark areas). If it was me, I would use light meter to read the correct exposure of the background (and probably leave it about 1 f-stop over expose) and then use strobes to expose the dark areas to match the background. Aug 20 13 07:06 am Link |
