Dealing with spotty clouds

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Apr 19, 2007
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I had to do some work on a day that had spotty clouds. Trouble is the clouds left shadows on many parts of the photo that are very distracting. Parts of the photo are in dark shadow and parts are very bright. Id like input from anyone that might have experienced this before as to the way you found that was best to get rid of it.
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Apr 19, 2007
For a quick fix, I would try Shadow/Highlight and use tonal width to target those dark areas.

Or create a quick and easy contrast mask:
http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series /u-contrast-masking.shtml http://www.vinberg.nu/pages/contrast_masking.htm

If you are confronted with a high contrast shot like that in the future you may want to take two shots exposing one for the highlights and one for the shadows and then blending them together in Photoshop. Here’s an article: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending .shtml

"Mark" wrote in message
I had to do some work on a day that had spotty clouds. Trouble is the clouds left shadows on many parts of the photo that are very distracting. Parts of the photo are in dark shadow and parts are very bright. Id like input from anyone that might have experienced this before as to the way you found that was best to get rid of it.
TK
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Apr 19, 2007
"Mark" wrote in message
I had to do some work on a day that had spotty clouds. Trouble is the clouds left shadows on many parts of the photo that are very distracting. Parts of the photo are in dark shadow and parts are very bright. Id like input from anyone that might have experienced this before as to the way you found that was best to get rid of it.

Hard to say without seeing the image.
You have tried the Shadow/Highlight adjustment?
You could try copying the layer and setting the mode to screen and playing with the opacity.

TWK

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