Editing high dynamic range images in PhotoLab 5

Mike, what can I say but Wow!!!

You really nailed this for exposure, even with the sun actually in the frame.

Just a couple of really small things:

Increase the size of the Smart Lighting zones, they weren’t big enough to affect the highlight/shadow levels enough.

After changing that, I could then adjust the tone curve by even less than you did, to maintain slightly more range.

Capture d’écran 2021-10-22 à 12.48.54

To be able to do this little alteration just goes to show how well you exposed the image in the camera.

I did add DeepPRIME because, despite the low ISO and perfect exposure, it can still clean up shadow areas.

Oh, and I felt that a 16:9 crop got rid of the “wasted” sky, but that is purely subjective.

Export…

DOP file with both my and @Fotoguido’s version

_7509172 | 2021-10-21.nef.dop (41,0 Ko)