Help me fix an image.

Bob Bell

I rarely see a bird feeding on fish here in Phoenix some some reason. I was walking around when I saw this GBH trying to catch something. So I setup for him and he comes up with a fish and he swings his head into the light and now have a hot head and fish.

It would be awesome if someone could fix this or tell me how to. I have been messing with it for an hour and all I end up with is an overprocessed GBH.



I have a Tiff file for editing if you can fix it let me know or show me on the JPG.

I would be grateful for your help and will buy you your first beer if your going to the shootout If not I have some filters laying around from Hoya and Tiffen that I won't use that you might

pathfinder

Bob - was this shot in RAW?

LittleLew

pathfinder wrote:

Bob - was this shot in RAW?

I have an equivalent problem where a stage shot is too hot at one corner and right on at the other - with a gradient in the middle

Bob Bell

pathfinder wrote:

Bob - was this shot in RAW?

Yep

ratcheer

Is this something like what you want? If so, I did it with a contrast overlay mask. I'll give you the full details if you are interested.

Tim

pathfinder

You could develop two seperate images from the RAW file - one for the highlights, and one for the mid tones and shadows, and then blend them as layers.

Or you can select the highlights with the color select tool IN LAB mode, duplicate them in a second layer and multiply blend them, or use the multiply blend in the Blend IF command on the Layers palette, and control the multiply blend by using Luminosity as the channell, and the luminosity sliders to limit the multiply blend only to the extreme highlights.


Can you make the original RAW file available somewhere on the WEB? Do you have a .MAC account for instance?

oldbmw

Cropped, bumped up the saturation (probably to much now that I look at it) dodged the bird and burned the background.

mereimage

Quick use of lab color enhancement
Along with some quick selection of background and judicious use of PS shadow highlight filter to open shadows revert to RGB and invert selection and again use S?H filter this time to tame highlights on birds face and neck. Then a little sharpening:



...................Mereimage

Khaos

depending on the histogram, you can use the shadow\highlight tool to help bring in some detail to a blown out area.

If that fails, you can cheat and try to huse the healing brush and fill in the area. Generally this will only work well for small areas.

Bob Bell

Khaos wrote:

depending on the histogram, you can use the shadow\highlight tool to help bring in some detail to a blown out area.

If that fails, you can cheat and try to huse the healing brush and fill in the area. Generally this will only work well for small areas.

Interesting ideas. The side of the head is so hot there isn't any detail.

Chris, I didn't know any sportsshooters were on here. One of my fav sites.

I like the saturation it makes the white look more like an artistic effect. I was trying to burn the white part but it didnt work.

Pathfinder, I will have to look to see if I have one still. If not I can definately post an unedited Tiff in 8bit aRGB

oldbmw

Bob Bell wrote:

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Chris, I didn't know any sportsshooters were on here. One of my fav sites.

I like the saturation it makes the white look more like an artistic effect. I was trying to burn the white part but it didnt work.

Yep I've been an SS member for a few years.

If I have to pick between underexposing and over exposing I will almost always choose under because you can usually pull a little detail out of shadows but if it's over exposed you can't do nothin bout it.