I used to shot a lots of party photos, with a long big table of over 24
peoples at low light level without a low noise machine like the 5D, it was a
very difficult task. Flash with ceiling reflection was suppose the way to go
but due to some reasons it does not work in that situation. For most of the
shots with flash I have to use PS adjustment.
As Moose suggest gradient tool is one of the solution and I use it a lot. I
use selection mask with gradient tool to select the area I wanted to adjust
and use the curve tool to increase the brightness for the affected area. Be
careful about the noise, increase the brightness of the dark area will bring
a lot of noise, you may need to apply noise reduction to the shot before
adjustment especially for the small DC.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose"
> orink@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> ....
>> Is there a clever way to correct the light on each of the faces of the
>> girls who were sitting at different distances from the flash since they
>> were sitting on the stair steps and thus the amount of light from the
>> flash that hit the faces on each stair step was different in intensity?
>>
>> I have Photoshop CS2, Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, Corel Paintshop Pro,
>> etc.
>>
> The short answer is yes, there are ways to compensate for that effect.
> Without seeing the image, it's hard to really tell, but I'll take a stab.
>
> It sounds like you are in luck in one important way, the simple
> arrangement on stairs. I would first try a gradient map, in effect
> changing the exposure or brightness across the image. In this case,
> making a smooth transition from brighter at the top to darker at the
> bottom. It sounds like the situation is close to ideal for that. I don't
> know about the other apps, but CS2 does this.
>
> I'd describe it in more detail - if I remembered. I have seldom used
> gradient maps, and forget the details of how they are set up. The help,
> manual and various on-line tutorials will have those details.
>
> If that doesn't work, you get into creating masks for individual areas
> for general adjustment by distance, then possibly into dodging and
> burning faces.
>
> Moose
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