[Pic] Thoroughly blown out highlights

[vision63]

Here's my stab at it. I see what you wanted to do but since you didn't meter for the sky it didn't work. If you could capture it when the sun is low and you mostly silhouetted the plant, it would have worked better. I'm sure you know that.

Seems like you could shoot this thing a bunch of ways, one of which would please you.

I don't remember what I did but I selected the sky parts with some feather, curved as much blue that could be brought back. Inversed the selection and monkeyed with the exposure/contrast etc. There's a lot of detail in the plant itself. And I like DP, didn't see a purpose to that unwelcomed line. Keep shooting shooting and shooting and sharing.

[CW2V]

CW2V

[freeradical]

Yeah, the line...

That sort of thing is never seen when taking a photo.

[vision63]

freeradical wrote:
Yeah, the line...

That sort of thing is never seen when taking a photo.

For people that shoot film, I know it a big source of pride to capture the image without having to post edit. That's the game. I think I'm gonna start shooting some film myself.

[Lew Zealand]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
Yeah, the line...

That sort of thing is never seen when taking a photo.

For people that shoot film, I know it a big source of pride to capture the image without having to post edit. That's the game. I think I'm gonna start shooting some film myself.
Even in the early days of digital, I still used much of that restraint as I had a 128MB CF card and 2 batteries for vacation shooting in Wash, DC (first time there). Time and space are the restraints here and many of the best pictures from this trip are single exposures but unfortunately a number of the almost-best pictures are also single exposures. Those happened because this was a consumer P&S with an optical rangefinder and I didn't properly account for parallax. The pics are decent but with slightly better placement, they would have been great. Time for another trip!