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04/14/2010 08:56:48 AM · #1 |
Ok, I can't help it -- Virginia has white skies! They're not grey, they're white. A good portion of it is backlit haze.
freestudy shot.
other shots
Waiting challenge:
How can I fix this? Waiting for a non-white day isn't much of an option, since the majority of days this spring have been like this. I finally bought a graduated neutral density filter, and that might have worked for "waiting", but wouldn't be much of an option for the seagulls. And would it work with a white sky? I know it will bring things down a little, but with white, I'm not sure that it would be that significant of a change.
I happen to like the white background in the seagull shot, but in most shots, it really stands out like a sore thumb. Please help! What can I do with dumb, white skies!!
Message edited by author 2010-04-14 08:57:27.
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04/14/2010 09:19:05 AM · #2 |
With the waiting shot you could have exposed for the sky and used a flash for fill, I tried that here and worked really well
Or if you shot in raw you could develop the sky and the rest of the scene differently and merge together in ps on two layers using a mask (legal in advanced but not basic editing). I find I do that a lot, only takes a couple of mins |
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04/14/2010 09:22:33 AM · #3 |
| Use less sky? It really isn't hurting your shots. Especially the birds - the clean white sky sets them off well, eliminates any distraction or clutter. With the waiting shot, if there is no detail in the sky, you could "import" another sky from another shot, but you need to watch the lighting to make sure it matches so it doesn't look fake. This of course will NOT work for any DPC competition but should be fine for real life work. |
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04/14/2010 09:31:58 AM · #4 |
| Those entries all came in in the mid to high 6's. Other than that you might prefer seeing a blue sky, it's not hurting your entries any. Avoiding the sky is not an option for the kind of shots you do. |
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04/14/2010 10:07:10 AM · #5 |
| Not sure if this helps you with those type of pics..... Will not help on the bird pics unless you have a hell of a flash :) but if you use flash you can put a gel on the flash (CTO of various strengths) when you colour correct [either post for RAW or the relevant white bal in camera for JPG] the sky will go blue. If you play with the fluro greens you can get purple in sunset type of shots. |
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04/14/2010 11:02:46 AM · #6 |
Try a circular polarizer
if that doesn't work, then I suggest using the "Selective Color" adjustment tool in PS, you can use it to turn all whites into blue/etc.. Problem is that for shots with other white highlights, that will work very poorly without the ability to do separate adjustments on sky and subject, which will be advanced editing only...
In anycase, try that out.. (another option, albeit a tricky one is to use graduated ND filters to knock down the sky.. |
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