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Fixing Exposure Diversities
In many scenes, you will find great diversity in exposures. Sometimes you can’t pull the two together with the camera to get a good overall exposure. I take two different shots, one shot that exposes for the shadow area and another shot that exposes for the highlights. I blend those two in Photoshop. I describe how to do that below.
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The original shot with the camera exposure made for the background. The foreground is completely dark and has several stops, less light, on it.
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This shot includes both the original shot and the new shot where I made the exposure for the foreground. I merged the two and masked out the background, which was extremely overexposed.
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The palette above shows the close-up rock used to fill in the foreground, but I don't like the blasting light caused from a flash. It washes out the detail in the surface of most objects.
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A curves adjustment layer is added to both layers as well as a mask on the close-up layer.
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