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It’s an inevitable fact that most digital photographs need some degree of adjustment either in the camera or in software afterwards. The latter is my preference.
I grabbed your image from the forum (low resolution so not the best file to work with)….and did a bit of work on it (hope you don’t mind?)
Yes the file is a tad over exposed but just moving the exposure will muddy the highlights.
Take a look at the histogram. The object is to try to get a perfect curve, centred in the middle but with some black and white …in other words the edge of the curve needs to touch both side walls.
The whites… bright sky is burnt out and “climbing the right hand wall” so to speak (yellow)
But the blacks are stopping short. (Red)
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Just lifting the Blacks by 16% (blue) brings the picture to life.
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A little bit of sharpening, cropping and framing and this is your photo…
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One of my business maxims was “inside every good photo, is a great image waiting to come out”.
And in case you are concerned about having to use expensive complex photo editing software…this was done in 30secs applying the same criteria in photos app on my iPad. It doesn’t take a lot of work to lift the files.
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Yeah …I should have spent another 30sec to tickle contrast and got it even closer.
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