Burnt out sky help:

[n30_mkii]

I have an image from the Lakes, where I used a 0.9 ND thinking the sky was ok, but there are a couple of patches of burnt out sky with no detail. Anyway to repair these using photoshop? It runins the picture a little, some clever cloning? Any tutorials or advice? I can upload the image if needed

 

[petebarnes]

You'll have to upload it buddy, The land must have been pretty dark to push your exposure up to blow out anything on a 0.9 grad, unless it was total whiteout skies. I've taken landscapes into the sun with a 0.9 with just the sun blown out and the land still properly exposed. Put it up and we'll have a look

 

[n30_mkii]

Thanks for getting back to me Pete, I think it is because the sun was directly behind the clouds causing rays of light. It's part of a pano I'm putting together, but would like to see if I can do anything with it, tried recovering that area, but it's completley blown, just after some photoshop advice maybe?

I know the scene is a little underexposed (I should have really bracketed the shots) but the sun on the main area looked great, so didn't have much time to think. Will post the pano later

Edit:

Here is an initial pano, not tweaked yet, straight off camera. But as you can see the sky to the right (initial photo) spoils it.

Thanks

 

[simonkit]

You have the possibility of using the clone tool to "repair" the burnt sections, it may spoil the effect/balance that you were after though

simon

 

[n30_mkii]

Any other ways of getting around this?

 

[n30_mkii]

Bump, any help?

 

[will69]

Put it down to experience and try again .....

 

[ShawWellPete]

I'd be tempted to use the clone tool and copy some of the dark cloud over that area. It's a good pano though.