"Grey Mopping" on High Key Shots

[kalibre]

Hi all,

I've done a few shoots now for a local wheelchair/pushchair company, who have wanted the standard blown white backdrop treatment. My vinyl rolled backdrops work great and the horizontal part of the backdrop is blown perfectly with little spill. The issue I mainly have is that the foreground and particularly under the chairs is naturally grey because of shadow and because it is not directly lit other than by the product lights.

I can get a perfect result by intensive PP and feathering ligthroom exposure brushes etc but the process need to be done on a 1-to-1 basis and does take quite a lot of time (100+ products) even though I think I'm quite speedy on each.

Does anyone here use a particular tactic for 'grey mopping' that isn't going to blow the subject? Just being lazy really...lol...

Cheers.

 

[cyclone]

Yep, the white eyedropper in levels maybe followed by a quick dodging.

 

[kalibre]

Thanks Cyclone, I was more after something within lightroom ideally or something that could be batched. The eyedropper works quite well but blows other parts of the image normally so needs to be masked too. The best combo I've come up with is the exposure brush with auto masking.