An obvious question; are you into graduated ND filters? My sense is that you've been around the photo scene awhile and are looking for something embedded in PS to save the investment/hassle. If you need further info on grad filters, you'll have no shortage of advice from the group.
Jack --- David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At http://users.adelphia.net/daoswald/ you can see a few shots I > snapped > today in Chinatown, Los Angeles. These were shot as RAW and coerced > into jpegs after a little postprocessing. This was the first time > I've > taken exclusively RAW images. After initial RAW processing, I didn't > > re-touch them as jpegs, other than to size them down to web-friendly. > > Notice the overly-bright sky, and underexposed subjects. I could > adjust > the midtones with the Levels tool, but I left them as-is to > demonstrate > my point. > > The point here is that this seems to be an all too typical result > with > DSLR's, at least for me. I can pick and choose; either the subject > is > exposed properly (and the sky hopelessly burned out), or the sky is > at > least kept within gamut (though still a little bright) resulting in > underexposed midtones. > > Aside from underexposing EVERYTHING, and then postprocessing to pull > out > shadow detail, is there anything I can do in-camera to improve my > exposures? > > Please excuse the boring subjects; I was just snapping away to tinker > > with exposure, not really paying attention to finding the one great > shot. > > Dave & __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/
