Nikon SLR Cameras

Overexposure Correction help needed

Eddie Skuid Carter
Eddie Skuid Carter

Alright, so I was taking studio pictures for my skate team. We have a softbox, and an overhead light, and shooting on a Nikon D90.
I edited the first two skaters after the team went home, and they came out exactly how I wanted them.
When I got to my third skater, I suppose he was standing a tad closer to the softbox. The raw photograph looked no different then the rest of the team, so I didn't put much thought into him being a little closer. Although, when I began editing, his left cheek easily gets washed out during the procedure to get each picture looking similar. When I try to fix it, his skin becomes discolored, or gets cloudy looking. What can I do to fix this?

(I'm using Photoshop CS6)

Bernd
Bernd

Reshoot just his face and paste it into the full shot with Photoshop. Cut and paste the face.

fhotoace
fhotoace

Too bad you did not use the LCD with the flashing highlight feature turned on to check your shots before releasing the team to go home.

Look on page 163

And the other option was to use the Active D-lighting, page 119

What happens when you use the CS6 retouch with new Content-Aware features

If this looks like it will take more than hour to retouch, call your guy back in to the studio and reshoot him

andy w
andy w

In the raw program do a local exposure correction on the part which appears overexposed before you open it up for "full" editing.

keerok
keerok

Tweak Gamma down a bit but if you can't get what you like, I say leave it as is. It's much better to leave it white than get it discolored.