advice please (attached pics)

[Ghost in the Shell]

ok i was in cambs yesterday testing some stuff out and a couple of my shots suffered due to inconsistant lighting - i just wanted some advice on how to not let this happen again.

also i have all the images in RAW format and on some they are under/overexposed i understand that RAW allows you to correct these after they are taken but how? what software do you use etc. Im only used to adjusting levels in PS really

anyway heres an example image

 

[Marik]

Not sure if this is the right answer but, i think you could take two/three shots, one normal exposure and one either side of normal (over and under exposed). Then combine them to make one. I think

Oh and i use PSE, which is free, and is basically drag bars which you turn and things change

Dan

 

[xolotl]

The reason this has happened is that the scene has too much dynamic range to the camera to capture and it has chose to expose for the sky instead of the foreground subject.

The best way to get around this is to do a HDR exposure, this involves taking several shots at different exposures to capture the full range of the scene then merging them in post processing. There was a thread quite recently on this that covered it in more detail.

You can recover the image quite well in PS anyway using the Shadow and highlights tool. While its not perfect it does give decent results. Using the .Raw file would be even better as they tend to have more recoverable data then a jpeg.

This was what I quickly knocked up in PS:

 

[Ghost in the Shell]

Not sure if this is the right answer but, i think you could take two/three shots, one normal exposure and one either side of normal (over and under exposed). Then combine them to make one. I think

Oh and i use PSE, which is free, and is basically drag bars which you turn and things change

Dan

thanks but i only use apple so i dont know if i can use that software.

 

[Ghost in the Shell]

The reason this has happened is that the scene has too much dynamic range to the camera to capture and it has chose to expose for the sky instead of the foreground subject.

The best way to get around this is to do a HDR exposure, this involves taking several shots at different exposures to capture the full range of the scene then merging them in post processing. There was a thread quite recently on this that covered it in more detail.

You can recover the image quite well in PS anyway using the Shadow and highlights tool. While its not perfect it does give decent results. Using the .Raw file would be even better as they tend to have more recoverable data then a jpeg.

This was what I quickly knocked up in PS:

Hi thanks so what your saying is i should use the function that marik talked about yes?

as far as RAW processing goes - is there no particular way of altering how it was shot? i.e. changing the ISO etc. or thats how i understood it but i am pretty cloudy on it anyway (will do some reading later)

thanks for the example - really shows how the image can be recovered so thanks (especially on such an already reduced image etc)