RichardB
Well-known
By way of background; in college I used to shoot weddings using Nikon F's, pretty simple stuff with only manual retouching, basically at that time it was WYSIWYG.
Now I am using Leica M6 & M7, Asph lenses, with Kodachrome, having the slides scanned by Dwayne's after processing and have done two weddings for friends. The first wedding was done not as the primary photogrpher so I used Adobe Photoshop Album Edition Starer 3.2 (Free) and had Blurb print an album for me.
The seocnd wedding as the principal photographer was again done as the first but now I have an extensive(about 240) number of slides of which a couple need some extensive editing that I do not have the tools for. The perfectionist in me says, I need these slides to complete the story but I don't want to include them if not up to my standards.
There are some shots that have extreme contrast ranges that will need to be fixed with other than global contrast and lighting level changes.
I figured when I started doing weddings again, that i would eventually need an upgrade to the free Photoshop.
The question is, what version of Photoshop will allow me to fix photos with extreme contrast range where I can go in and select the areas seperately? The detail is there, example: a shot of the bride and her father looking into a mirror, the Leica SF24 flash exposed on the back of the brides white dress but one can still see a good image in the mirror of the bride and father but that part of the image needs to be brightened.
I compose fairly well, so in general I don't require extensive tools to remove unwanted items in photos which was what one learned 30 years ago!
Any help will be appreciated. thanks.-Dick
Now I am using Leica M6 & M7, Asph lenses, with Kodachrome, having the slides scanned by Dwayne's after processing and have done two weddings for friends. The first wedding was done not as the primary photogrpher so I used Adobe Photoshop Album Edition Starer 3.2 (Free) and had Blurb print an album for me.
The seocnd wedding as the principal photographer was again done as the first but now I have an extensive(about 240) number of slides of which a couple need some extensive editing that I do not have the tools for. The perfectionist in me says, I need these slides to complete the story but I don't want to include them if not up to my standards.
There are some shots that have extreme contrast ranges that will need to be fixed with other than global contrast and lighting level changes.
I figured when I started doing weddings again, that i would eventually need an upgrade to the free Photoshop.
The question is, what version of Photoshop will allow me to fix photos with extreme contrast range where I can go in and select the areas seperately? The detail is there, example: a shot of the bride and her father looking into a mirror, the Leica SF24 flash exposed on the back of the brides white dress but one can still see a good image in the mirror of the bride and father but that part of the image needs to be brightened.
I compose fairly well, so in general I don't require extensive tools to remove unwanted items in photos which was what one learned 30 years ago!
Any help will be appreciated. thanks.-Dick
pesphoto
Veteran
CS2 or 3 if you can afford it. Try bouncing your flash off a wall, ceiling or directly behind you and the foreground in photos like the one you describe won't get blown out and the light will feel more natural overall.