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Archive 2008 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?

  
 
drsprite
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p.1 #1 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


I have this HDR image of Boston at dusk I've been working on, but I am running into a snag, I have a bright light ruining it.

Can anyone offer up any help on how to reduce the in-your-face bright light in the lower part of the frame?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!




Nov 24, 2008 at 09:02 PM
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p.1 #2 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


Thats tough to fix - i tried it and its so overexposed on the light it is hard to fix.

Try opening the raw (if you have it) in photoshop with exposure turned way down and then blending (click move tool, shift they drag on top of the one with good exposure and then reduce the opacity. This might help. I am not sure.

If you reshoot, use AEB and 2 stop difference and then you have an exposure that you can blend for a better fixing of light.

Scott



Nov 25, 2008 at 12:23 AM
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p.1 #3 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


Hi

I tried to copy a bit of the image (from the left bit of the photo) over the spot - fiddle with the skew and curves etc to try to match it to the rest of the photo

very rough - but better than the spot - nice photo

Alan

/Users/ceuser/Desktop/boston-hdr-fm-help1.psd



Nov 25, 2008 at 04:30 AM
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p.1 #4 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


Sorry, meant copy from the right

/Users/ceuser/Desktop/boston-hdr-fm-help1.psd



Nov 25, 2008 at 06:25 AM
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p.1 #5 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


paulhodson wrote:
Not meant to be sarcastic but



I was going to suggest the same thing. Are you against going with a crop? The best part of the image is certainly the top portion.



Nov 25, 2008 at 03:25 PM
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p.1 #6 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


I thought about doing a crop, but it didn't look right to me, so I was going to keep the bottom portion. With it cropped like that, it won't print nicely without even further cropping, right?


Nov 26, 2008 at 03:17 PM
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p.1 #7 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


I live in that building in the foreground!

I'm trying to figure out where you were to take this? A long lens from the convention center, or the hotel?

I'm not a photoshop guru, but in my experience bright spots like the one in the lower left are very hard to get rid of. There is no data in those pixels to massage. Burn it and the light spot becomes a dark spot, cloning with all that detail and not drawing attention to the clone will be hard. Having said that beebibi's clone is very good.
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Dec 03, 2008 at 11:45 AM
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p.1 #8 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


Repeat the mantra: The clone tool is my friend.


Dec 04, 2008 at 12:34 AM
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p.1 #9 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


beebibi,

+1

Great clone job!

Bob



Dec 04, 2008 at 02:38 PM
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p.1 #10 · Photoshop help: Fixing a bright light?


Great cloning job, beebibi!


Dec 04, 2008 at 08:15 PM





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