Highlight/Shadow Recovery

[mwsilvers (Mark - New Jersey, USA)]

@Pieloe

Mark

Can you better explain your process ?
Have you only used local settings or have you started with global ?
Which global value lighting corrections ?
And patterned mask ?
Thanks

Pascal

Pascal,

Here is the link to the recent HDR thread where I described how I edited this image.

Any HDR like this?

I use a number of combinations of local and global adjustments to get the results that please me. I may use a somewhat different approach depending on the original image. First with regard to geometry, For this image it includes the application of the camera/lens profile to repair lens distortion, and the use of the Viewpoint 3 perspective tool to fix converging verticals in conjunction with the crop tool. I also used the auto setting of Chromatic Aberration tool and the Vignetting tool. He…

Mark