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chris(pa)

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They're dark because of me trying to expose the duck properly. If you notice, the ducks are properly exposed in mine but the backgrounds are very underexposed. So.....how do I expose both properly? I can't figure out how. Anyway, I figure'd having the ducks exposed right was more important since they're the focal point.

 

Yes, I shot RAW....I always shoot RAW and these RAW's were edited quite a bit. In the actual picture I took the ducks were overexposed and background exposed properly and my edit is what made them darker (on purpose because of the ducks).

 

Your edit looks good (background looks better than my version), but the ducks have more blown out spots in your edit.....hence the conundrum.

Edit one shot for the water and one for the ducks

 

Layer mask em

 

Perfect

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Edit one shot for the water and one for the ducks

 

Layer mask em

 

Perfect

 

 

Gonna give that a shot shortly. Should do the trick...thanks.

 

Edit: Okay...I have one of them done and it's much better I think.

 

This one is layers/masking

2008-02-04_6-3.jpg

 

This one is HDR

2008-02-04_6_-2_tonemapped.jpg

 

Both look pretty good with an edge to HDR (IMO), but I'm not paying $100 for the retail version of Photomatix.

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