[Leica] How to capture gloom

[Sonny Carter]

A couple things, you could copy a middle exposure image and the lay it down
in PS three times in layers, then make one layer so you’re happy with the
highlights, another with the middle tones, and the final layer you can set
for the dark parts. You can then use the automation to essentially HDR the
shot.

Another technique I like better and use often is pretty much the same
setup, then I selectively erase parts of layers to reveal the exposure I
like.

Takes time, but it’s a lot of fun, and you can get it to your vision of how
the scene appeared to you.

SonC

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 3:32 PM Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Last week I was shooting in a redwood forest that was, for the most part,
> quite dark and yet there was also quite a bit of light in areas. In another
> location the entire forest was in deep shade and in another I was walking
> down a narrow defile with bright sky overhead but shooting wide open I was
> still at ISO 1600.
>
> None of my photos convey what I saw in any of these cases. I tried pushing
> the exposure down which didn’t do the job. And I have played with the
> images in Lightroom, Photoshop to little effect. That sense of darkness and
> light just isn’t there.
>
> Any ideas about how to capture this? I’d appreciate your thoughts.
>
>
> Adam Bridge
> Davis, CA
>
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