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Originally Posted by Don Hoey
Rob
The fact that Chris posted it here with his question " Have been pondering sky corrections on multi-plane landscapes as it seems impossible to get an exposure that does everything in imperfect light " suggests that his camera might not have been able to do justice to the high dynamic range. I was not there so only assume that to be the case.
N.D. filters have been used for ages to assist in this. The camera does not lie but is not as capable as the human eye in dealing with high contrast scenes. If you do not have an N.D. filter then in old fashioned printing terms holding back the sky would be acceptable practice. How you deal with that digitally is another question, which I guess is what Chris is asking.
Don
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This is the main reason I shoot in Raw.
Raw give you the latitude to correct these problems as no post processing has been carried out within the camera.
All jpegs are processed in the camera after shooting as taken place, so to my mind this is no different to my post processing raw files on my pc. Albeit much later on.
Faced with the situation that Chris found himself in, I would just take the shot with what I considered to be the best exposure.
However when at my pc I would create two Tiff Images, one exposed for the sky and a second exposed for the foreground, then blend the two together.
If the sky is just a lttle overexposed I would just create a new layer and apply a black to white gradient at approx 10%. If you want to inpart more blue into the sky use a suitable shade of blue in place of black.
This is just basic editing within PS.
For anyone just starting out with CS2 I would recomend Deke McClellands "One on One" This takes you through all the various tools with samples to work on and easy to follow text £19 from Amazon.
Harry