How blown is too blown?

divamum

Bright sun used as a rim. In theory,great, but when I say bright, I mean... BRIGHT.

This has had a fair bit of photoshop love already, and I probably need to work on the greens/yellows even more. I like a lot about the shot, but keep thinking "ack! Blown, blown, blown!!".

Thoughts?

Overfocused

Do shadows/highlights... 1px tonal width, 1px radius, and % of application to your liking. Pretty much fixes it. (I took it into photo shop and tried it lol)

*edit* Doing it twice really does fix it completely. Then re-dodge the face. I'll just post it I guess:




%100 1px, 1px, for the first apply and I forget how much I did the second time already haha

jpc

Not sure why Overfocused decided to edit your photo, but it ruined her face. Stay with your original and add some vignette. It's just a little high-key - not blown. Rim light is supposed to be bright.

adbsgicom

I think it is fine. The face still calls for your attention and with the blonde hair I think it works more seamlessly.
Overfocused's fix did improve the hair a bunch. I'd mask off everything but the hair if you went that route...

divamum

JPC, you were quite right - some more vignette balanced it up very well.

That said... great tip on highlight/shadow OF - never knew about that. Used on just the hair, it'll be great. However, I can't get it even close to your results when I'm working on the tif. Did you clone some hair texture back into the blown area on the top of the head? Try as I might, I can't recover anything there, so I'm wondering how you did it!!

Overfocused

divamum wrote: »

JPC, you were quite right - some more vignette balanced it up very well.

That said... great tip on highlight/shadow OF - never knew about that. Used on just the hair, it'll be great. However, I can't get it even close to your results when I'm working on the tif. Did you clone some hair texture back into the blown area on the top of the head? Try as I might, I can't recover anything there, so I'm wondering how you did it!!

Nope... did radius 1px tonal width %1 both times I applied it... %100 strength the first application and I don't remember how much strength the second time, but, you just need to slide the bar till you like it the second time. I was just demonstrating the sunlight being pulled back and didn't make the face pretty again, lol. Duplicating the layer before and masking the areas botched after shadows/highlights would work.

Foques

I like the original way, way better than the edit..

AmazingGrace0385

I like the original way just fine. Rim light is supposed to be bright. Like someone said, it's high key, not "blown". If it were a main part of the image and all detail was lost, then it would be blown.

zoomer

Choose the grass, take a lot of the yellow out, add a bit of black point to the entire photo. Crop a smidge from the right, good to go.
Perfectly acceptable to have the rim blown a bit.
If you hate it...use the clone tool at 20%, darken, select the hair next to it and click it over the blown spot a couple times to taste.

BrettDeutsch

I'm with the majority (plurality?) here -- looks good as is. Rim lights should be bright. The only thing that keeps distracting me is the dark spot in the grass on the bottom left corner. I don't know if it's a shadow or something else, but it keeps drawing my eye away from your cute subject. I think a few seconds with the clone tool would help.

dogwood

Yeah for sure, the original looks fine.

divamum

Thanks guys - appreciate the feedback and ideas!

Hackbone

I try to keep my brightness to less that 245. At times blown out whites are white so 255 is ok.