over exposed skies

13 years 2 weeks ago #42666 by BUV
Many of my outdoor pictures come out with over exposed skies. I know the easy answer is to look for better lighting conditions when taking the picture, but is there anything I can do in photoshop to fix this? Or maybe the camera part of the problem.


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13 years 2 weeks ago #42667 by tiffypiffy123
What you could do in Photoshop would be to use the sky from a different picture, and paste this on top of it.


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13 years 2 weeks ago #42682 by Solstar
Try using a tripod to bracket a few shots and expose for the sky as well as the ground, it might make combining the images easier. There are a number of folks in the forum who might be able to give you tips on the software side. The other option some other folks may give you is to use a split neutral density filter.


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13 years 2 weeks ago #42697 by BUV
Thanks. I have another question...if I bracket the shots, how do I join all those images together, so that I have a correct exposure to a single picture?


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13 years 2 weeks ago #42846 by Joves
In nice bright sunny conditions a Circular Polarizer is your friend. You dial it in till you get the sky the correct blue. Also you need to meter the shot in between the dark and the light. If you are using say Aperture Priority then you can use Exposure Compnesation and minus it by a stop. If you are shooting in the Programmed modes then the polarizer, buy the best you can afford.


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13 years 1 week ago #42961 by Hamtastic

BUV wrote: Thanks. I have another question...if I bracket the shots, how do I join all those images together, so that I have a correct exposure to a single picture?



You can use either Photoshop or you can use Photomatix


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13 years 1 week ago #43025 by Harry
This has always been a dilemma in photography, exposing for the sky and the subject in the same exposure. Actually there's few situations where the light between the two is balanced enough so you can attain a perfect exposure of both. The best I've seen on the posting is bracketing then sandwiching them in Photoshop. However there's another issue, is the original sky cool enough to warrant all the work.

Here's the solution. When you see an amazing sky, shoot it. Forget about the landscape beneath it, you want to start building a library of great skies just for this purpose. Photoshop has made it quite easy to replace skies, so why not have a prefect one every time rather than trying to jury rig or sit all day for the clouds to be perfect.

It's no brainier. We have a lot of free tutorials on our site that' will show exactly how to change out a sky. Just go to layercakeelements.com/tutorials.php

Hope that helps Harry


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13 years 1 week ago #43046 by Mike Ayrouth

Harry@LayerCake wrote: This has always been a dilemma in photography, exposing for the sky and the subject in the same exposure. Actually there's few situations where the light between the two is balanced enough so you can attain a perfect exposure of both. The best I've seen on the posting is bracketing then sandwiching them in Photoshop. However there's another issue, is the original sky cool enough to warrant all the work.

Here's the solution. When you see an amazing sky, shoot it. Forget about the landscape beneath it, you want to start building a library of great skies just for this purpose. Photoshop has made it quite easy to replace skies, so why not have a prefect one every time rather than trying to jury rig or sit all day for the clouds to be perfect.

It's no brainier. We have a lot of free tutorials on our site that' will show exactly how to change out a sky. Just go to layercakeelements.com/tutorials.php

Hope that helps Harry


Good information :thumbsup:

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