Salvage saturday

[Ben Egbert]

Tie to pile on with your recently reworked images

how about a stream this week this is along aliong alpine loop but the south fork near the s bum it it only works in the spring.

 

[AlanLichty]

I watched a youTube video yesterday on recovering from highlight blowouts by using Selective Color layers and decided to try out this technique. I picked a shot from Bryce Canyon that has some difficult light in the capture. Bryce is quite interesting for the amount of reflected light that offer up some amazing scenes but they don't always translate well through our camera sensors. This is a shot from the Mossy Cave Trail on the east side of the park that had two issues - the sky since I was almost shooting into the sun and the foreground rocks that were a bit overexposed but still had detail. I used two selective color layers for each of those problem areas and then masked out the rest of the scene from each to correct the rocks and sky respectively. I like how this one worked out as this result is pretty close to why I opened up my tripod legs for this scene in the first place.

This is the original straight out of camera:

 

[Ben Egbert]

Interesting technique glad you showed it to us nice you showed it to us

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting technique glad you showed it to us nice you showed it to us

Thanks - my thoughts as well. The rocks down in the very front had no color at all from being overexposed and no amount of work with HSL color or the brush tool could really fix the problem. Selective color did the trick once I selected white and then rebuilt the colors. I modified the mask to only rework the overexposed rocks colors down in front. The sky was close to white but since there is almost no white along the intersection of the rock formations and the sky using selective color with white eliminated any need to care about careful masking along the tops of the hoodoos. I did use the mask to black out the lower portions of the scene when working on the sky but made no effort to carefully work the edges of the hoodoos.

I definitely have further uses for this technique.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Interesting technique. I should look it up. The results speak for themselves. Perhaps a before shot will show the rework much better.

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting technique. I should look it up. The results speak for themselves. Perhaps a before shot will show the rework much better.

Good idea - I just added the original below the modified one.

 

[Peter Michal]

I watched a youTube video yesterday on recovering from highlight blowouts by using Selective Color layers and decided to try out this technique. I picked a shot from Bryce Canyon that has some difficult light in the capture. Bryce is quite interesting for the amount of reflected light that offer up some amazing scenes but they don't always translate well through our camera sensors. This is a shot from the Mossy Cave Trail on the east side of the park that had two issues - the sky since I was almost shooting into the sun and the foreground rocks that were a bit overexposed but still had detail. I used two selective color layers for each of those problem areas and then masked out the rest of the scene from each to correct the rocks and sky respectively. I like how this one worked out as this result is pretty close to why I opened up my tripod legs for this scene in the first place.

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This is the original straight out of camera:

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Alan I am amazed, that is a great result!

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Excellent result, Alan.