* Rich Ashcraft <rich.ashcr...@gmail.com> [08-23-15 11:16]: > First off, probably my error. > > Shot a wedding in Nashville Indiana last weekend. Nice day, slightly > overcast, GREAT lighting until the end. Couple coming up the aisle and > he dips her for a great kiss,,,, and a ray of light shot through and hit > one of the mothers square in the face the instant I snapped. Perfect > picture except one thing. If I ramp up the exposure for the couple the > mother's face hit by the "Laser light" sun beam gets blown out. No > problem, drawn mask on exposure covering the mothers face (Darktable is > amazing by the way). No go. Tried single instance (mask > face/head/shoulders), I can increase under the mask but when I invert > the mask the whole image gets the increase and I'm back to the original > problem. Multiple instances seems to have the same issue for me. > > Like I said, it's probably me not using something correctly but this one > thing would make this image. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
By no means an expert, but have you considered applying the mask first and setting correct exposure for the mother and then inverting the mask in a second instance and setting exposure for the rest of the shot? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
