Effects to help exposure
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Re: Effects to help exposure
Well you may not have actually screwed yourself as much as you think. The digital medium, dispite its limited dynamic latitude, does have a knack for maintaining detail in the shadow areas better than it can in the highlights. Looking at the image, you have definitely exposed well for the highlights (clouds/sky), but by doing so, have left your subject in the dark. Something to remember, in photography it's best to try to obtaining proper exposure on what is most important within your frame. A quick fix for this exposure nightmare would have been to use a simple white board, or reflector while shooting, to give your subject some fill light and thereby reducing that nasty contrast problem. Now back to your sample, without spending a whole lot of time on the image, I was able to import this still into Premiere Pro and adjust the shadow regions to a more appropriate level without changing the overall exposure in the highlights. With the exception of the artifacts from what looks like the type of compression you used to create the still, I would say this would be a more accepted image than the previous. By the way, this was achieved simply by applying a shadow/highlight video effect, and an auto levels correction filter. Let me know if you need any additional help.
PS: Watch the headroom on your subjects when composing a shot, unless of course you added the letterbox in post, in which I would recommend you adjust the video position and then apply the letterbox.
Well you may not have actually screwed yourself as much as you think. The digital medium, dispite its limited dynamic latitude, does have a knack for maintaining detail in the shadow areas better than it can in the highlights. Looking at the image, you have definitely exposed well for the highlights (clouds/sky), but by doing so, have left your subject in the dark. Something to remember, in photography it's best to try to obtaining proper exposure on what is most important within your frame. A quick fix for this exposure nightmare would have been to use a simple white board, or reflector while shooting, to give your subject some fill light and thereby reducing that nasty contrast problem. Now back to your sample, without spending a whole lot of time on the image, I was able to import this still into Premiere Pro and adjust the shadow regions to a more appropriate level without changing the overall exposure in the highlights. With the exception of the artifacts from what looks like the type of compression you used to create the still, I would say this would be a more accepted image than the previous. By the way, this was achieved simply by applying a shadow/highlight video effect, and an auto levels correction filter. Let me know if you need any additional help.
PS: Watch the headroom on your subjects when composing a shot, unless of course you added the letterbox in post, in which I would recommend you adjust the video position and then apply the letterbox.