I fully appreciate not wanting to waste time on the computer with
Photoshop, or the equivalent of spending time in a darkroom...
it can get to be quite a time sink and life is short. However,
Sometimes the fancy things work better. So this may be beyond
what you were looking for:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26724
I have to say, for myself, finally getting more adept with Photoshop
and all it has to offer has helped me when viewing a scene
with the camera. I am much more aware of the relationship of
colors in a scene and am better able to visualize the final result
when I am taking a picture.
I imagine if one spent a lot of time in the darkroom that the same
thing would happen, that it would influence how one sees when
behind the camera.
Now if you really want to get fancy, which you said you didn't,
pick up a copy of Katrin Eismann's book. If the blue sky is really
gone, it is hard to recover it. So the choice is to spend time with
the scanner to recover what is there and blend multiple scans,
or do the PS thing and some kind of selection based on the
channels and add back what is missing.
The question of approach depends on what information can be
retrieved from the original image, or not.
WayneS
At 02:27 PM 9/21/2009, you 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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