08-23-2010, 09:52 PM
Hi Keith,
Can you maybe show some samples, or even put up some samples for us to download and check out? It is very hard to discuss this without actually being able to see or work with a file as you describe. It could be the result of many things, like WB out of whack, very bright blue skies, overcast skies with a bright sun behind the clouds, early morning pictures before the sun is out with some overexposure, just simple overexposure with blue as the main light, etc.
The things I normally do in ACR is correct (over)exposure, and do some curves, and nothing else, before saving to a 16-bit tif file, so as to preserve most if not all of the DR, prior to getting to work on it in proper PP.
Of course, you could always try to expose to the right, IOW, make sure that nothing (or virtually nothing) gets clipped on the bright end, as generally digital cameras are much better at bringing the dark parts to life than film is/was, but it is not possible at all to bring anything truly overexposed back, where film has more latitude.
Anyway, looking forward to see some samples so we can help you more specifically with your problem.
Kind regards, WIm
Can you maybe show some samples, or even put up some samples for us to download and check out? It is very hard to discuss this without actually being able to see or work with a file as you describe. It could be the result of many things, like WB out of whack, very bright blue skies, overcast skies with a bright sun behind the clouds, early morning pictures before the sun is out with some overexposure, just simple overexposure with blue as the main light, etc.
The things I normally do in ACR is correct (over)exposure, and do some curves, and nothing else, before saving to a 16-bit tif file, so as to preserve most if not all of the DR, prior to getting to work on it in proper PP.
Of course, you could always try to expose to the right, IOW, make sure that nothing (or virtually nothing) gets clipped on the bright end, as generally digital cameras are much better at bringing the dark parts to life than film is/was, but it is not possible at all to bring anything truly overexposed back, where film has more latitude.
Anyway, looking forward to see some samples so we can help you more specifically with your problem.
Kind regards, WIm
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....