Upde Designs

Good Day.  A short post today as is my normal tendency I’m running very late.  I wanted to show this image because it demonstrates a technique I learned from one of the books on Photoshop I’m currently reading.

I took this image last week at the airport exposing for the mid-tones of the airplane, however because I was shooting back into the direction of the sun the sky was blown out.  In other words the sky was clipped to pure white.  If I had exposed for the sky the airplane or mid-tones would have been way too dark to see any detail.  This clearly demonstrates some of the limitations in digital cameras.  Exposing for all the luminance values is rarely possible.

The technique I tried was to first process the image in Camera RAW and adjust the exposure for the shadows and mid-tones.  In other words I balanced it for the airplane.  Then I opened that image in Photoshop.  I went back to the same RAW file and reopened it in Camera RAW and this time I adjusted the exposure for the highlights or the sky.

Then I saved that (same image) to Photoshop and combined or made a composite of the two images and using a mask ended up with an image where both the sky and the airplane are exposed more or less correctly.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.  Be careful.