Forum: Photography


Subject: White Skies

lejimi opened this issue on Nov 01, 2005 ยท 26 posts


lejimi posted Thu, 03 November 2005 at 2:48 AM

I've got a Fuji Finepix S5500 which I bought less tahn one year ago. So this isn't an old camera. I have three light metering modes : average, center and multi. But in the situation we're talking about I can't see any big differences between them. The part where I focus is well exposed and the other is not. If I mean to solve the problem only by postworking. It seems obvious to me that I have to take the second picture as a starting point. Then I encounter two problems : how to do a proper selection as the line between sky and trees is not a straight one (that's my major problem I think) ? Then I can add setting layers (luminosity/Contrast, saturation...) The selection will automatically work as a mask (which I can blur a bit to soften the transitions) Here's the second point : which setting could I apply and where to stop to avoid artificialness ? The link given above by Onslow explains this method, but the selection is pretty simple ! Selection is, I think, the most difficult job when postworking. There are many ways to do it, and I'm a bit lost. This would be a good tutorial theme too ! Regards, Sam