Your attachment didn't make it for some reason. But the quick and easy
answer is to try the shadow/highlight control and turn the highlights
down. I few months ago I wouldn't have thought such a simple control
could work such magic on sky and clouds but Moose showed that it could.
Watch the other areas of the image to see that cutting the highlights
in the sky doesn't wreak havoc elsewhere. If so you may need to apply a
mask. That's not too hard either.
If that doesn't do enough for you (eg: there is just too little blue
left) there are more tricks that can be applied.
Chuck Norcutt
Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Greetings All,
> Well its confession time, my sin being that I don't really know how to do
> fancy things in Photoshop involving layers, etc. This is primarily because
> I'd rather take photos than spend time in front of the PC; not to mention my
> general laziness and aversion to slogging through manuals. Now that I got
> that out of the way I'm asking for suggestions on how to make a correction
> on a photo. The hospital where I work recently completed the construction of
> a helicopter landing pad and celebrated the inaugural landing a few days
> ago. I positioned myself at the best spot and took the shot seen in the
> thumbnail. I was using my OM-1 with a 35/2.8 and a polarizer. It was a very
> bright cloudy day and much of my subject is a large very white building, so
> I metered off the grass at my feet which pretty much agreed with the Sunny
> 16 Rule. When I got back the film the helicopter and landscape were well
> exposed but the clouds and bits of blue sky are over-exposed (despite the
> polarizer). I e-mailed a copy the the hospital COO and he very much would
> like to use it. My question is how would I go about improving the sky such
> that I could tone it down and increase the contrast between the sky and
> clouds?
>
> TIA,
> Charlie
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