Over Exposed?

elwoodsusanm

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I have a wedding photo of people in a car - the photographer was just outside so the nearest person to him is over exposed and rather bright - everybody else looks ok. How can I remedy this please? :eek: I have PSE5.
 
Can you post up the photo so we can see the problem and if there's any way of recovering it?
 
That's not as bad as I was expecting to see ;) TBH I think the image is suffering from under exposure more than over exposure, although the girls dress is totally blown in the bottom right corner.

I would make a selection of everything except the girl in the foreground, feather the selection by around 80 - 150 pixels (depending on the size of the original file) and using levels bring up the brightness, this will balance the image better. To recover the blown out area in the bottom right I would try cloning an area from the middle of her dress.

HTH :)
 
I used a couple of gradient layers and got this...

overexposed2.jpg
 
Here's what I said put into practice :)


overexposed.jpg
 
I highlighted the dark areas and toned down the highlights which hopefully leads you away from the overexposure.

Edit
overexposedcopy.jpg


Original
overexposed.jpg
 
Interesting seeing the different edits. Not much to choose between tiler65 and Grendel. Think I'd just give it to Grendel for getting the whites whiter :)
 
I would probably be tempted to turn it black and white, just because I find it to be easier to control the tones etc with an over/under exposed shot.

Maybe something like:
weddingbweo5.jpg
 
RobertP said:
Interesting seeing the different edits. Not much to choose between tiler65 and Grendel. Think I'd just give it to Grendel for getting the whites whiter :)
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I thought they were off whites. ;) Mature wedding and all that.
 
I think that MMCP42's over sharpening is only good on the girl on the right hand side, don't oversharpen the girl on the left (but sharpen) but I'd not sharpen the middle two women or the trees, take Grendals post processing and I think you'd have a far better photo.

Just my .02p
Carl.
 
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