Can this be saved? ** Now with added edit **

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This shot was a bit of an accidental capture! I did focus on the bee, but took it so quickly that I didn't adjust the exposure and now the sunlight on the flowers seems to have blown (or borderline blown) the image.

Can it be saved at all? I love the movement of the bee's wings and the pollen on its body, but I'm not sure anything can be saved.

Any hints and tips on where to start (if indeed, I should start trying to save it!) would be great!


IMG_2208 by *Babs, on Flickr

(This is the original shot without any tweaks at all)
 
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Ahh! :clap: Thanks guys. I do have a RAW version. I've barely played around with RAW files but take shots in both RAW and JPEG on the basis that when my knowledge increases I may want to revisit shots and edit in RAW.

I'll have a play around with it later. Thanks!! :D
 
You've recovered a lot of detail there, but I'd say that's your lot. Even raw editing can't recover detail where there isn't any.
 
Thanks. I didn't think I'd be able to recover any more than that, but thanks for looking! :)
 
Quick and dirty edit, it could be better if I was working from the RAW file.

Beeedit.jpg
 
Ooh! That's good! How did you do it? Was this in LR3? I tried having a play around with the spot tool (is that right? Spot healing maybe??) but couldn't get it quite right. Any tips would be great.
 
I just used the clone tool in PS CS5 to fill in the burnt out areas.
 
Thanks. I'll give that a go in PSE9.

Potentially stupid question alert *** Can I export what I've done already in RAW format from LR3 to PSE9. Or do I need to save as a JPEG in LR3 and then open that in PSE9?
 
*Babs said:
Thanks. I'll give that a go in PSE9.

Potentially stupid question alert *** Can I export what I've done already in RAW format from LR3 to PSE9. Or do I need to save as a JPEG in LR3 and then open that in PSE9?
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You should just be able to 'Edit in' PSE9 - opening directly from Lightroom as you would with the full CS version. This would create a duplicate and leave the original all within LR:thumbs:
 
EdBray said:
I just used the clone tool in PS CS5 to fill in the burnt out areas.
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yeah this is a good trick and why its worth taking the time to learn a few post techniques such as this. Also the reason photoshop is so useful even though you can do a lot in LR, this kind of rescue would be very difficult to achieve. If you know what youre doing in photoshop you salvage an image that might otherwise be binned, you wouldnt want to have to do it all the time, but if its something you cant reshoot and have to have the shot.
 
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