Blowing stuff up

[The_kid1433]

Hi all tried to take some photos of some stuff blowing up at work and hoping for some constructive criticism.
originals seemed like the colour was flat and I thought possibly over exposed but instant fix in the Photoshop elements organiser made them much better.

DSC_0125_edited-1 by paul garvie, on Flickr

DSC_0140_edited-1 by paul garvie, on Flickr

DSC_0149_edited-1 by paul garvie, on Flickr

DSC_0151_edited-1 by paul garvie, on Flickr

DSC_0143_edited-1 by paul garvie, on Flickr

thanks for looking

the kid

 

[Orangecroc]

Masking the flame area and bring down the exposure selectively may bring out more depth within the explosion.

 

[The_kid1433]

cheers do I need to have shot the image in raw to be able to do that?

 

[ancient_mariner]

cheers do I need to have shot the image in raw to be able to do that?

No unless the image contains areas that are so light or dark that they have lost all detail in the jpg version, and even then the raw may be blown or blocked up.

 

[The_kid1433]

Aye I think I overexposed it originally and list all the detail in the flame

 

[Jimi-the-fish]

No-one has asked the important question:
"...stuff blowing up at work..."!
Where do you work??

J

 

[The_kid1433]

Teaching young potential Royal engineers at the moment.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

do I need to have shot the image in raw to be able to do that?

That wouldn't help… even from RAW!
The highlights are burnt… nothing to retrieve there.

The solution is prior to SR by dialling a -2 to -3 EV
for a test shot that may be tweaked after a look at
the resulting histogram.

 

[The_kid1433]

tried some more editing and came up with this. never going to be perfect as I missed the top of the flame but I think slightly better

DSC_0125.jpg by paul garvie, on Flickr