I'm photographing some temples in Asia and no matter how I set my cameras exposure either the skies over expose or the temple under exposes. Shadows are really dark and sunny areas are too bright :/
I'm taking photos in Raw format and using Lightroom and I also have Photoshop. Lightroom allows me to change the exposure. Moving the slider one way gives me great skies, moving it the other way gives me great foreground. But how can I get both?
Adjusting brightness of shadows and highlights sometimes works. But rather than just affecting the sky it often affects the foreground as well.
If I open the image in Photoshop, select the sky, and try to darken it doesn't work as well, only giving me limited adjustment before it all just looks bad. I assume this is because Photoshop does away with the Raw format so looses the extra ability to restore badly exposed areas.
What does seem to work is the touchup tool in Lightroom. I put a mask on the sky and decrease the exposure
But the touchup tool is pretty inaccurate at selecting areas. It does the job but it's hard to select the sky exactly, especially around foregrounds and buildings with complex shapes.
I've also tried Adobe Camera Raw. Again, it lets me adjust the exposure with amazing results, but I can't select it to just adjust the sky.
I'll experiment with these tools some more, but any suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm taking photos in Raw format and using Lightroom and I also have Photoshop. Lightroom allows me to change the exposure. Moving the slider one way gives me great skies, moving it the other way gives me great foreground. But how can I get both?
Adjusting brightness of shadows and highlights sometimes works. But rather than just affecting the sky it often affects the foreground as well.
If I open the image in Photoshop, select the sky, and try to darken it doesn't work as well, only giving me limited adjustment before it all just looks bad. I assume this is because Photoshop does away with the Raw format so looses the extra ability to restore badly exposed areas.
What does seem to work is the touchup tool in Lightroom. I put a mask on the sky and decrease the exposure
But the touchup tool is pretty inaccurate at selecting areas. It does the job but it's hard to select the sky exactly, especially around foregrounds and buildings with complex shapes.I've also tried Adobe Camera Raw. Again, it lets me adjust the exposure with amazing results, but I can't select it to just adjust the sky.
I'll experiment with these tools some more, but any suggestions would be appreciated.
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