How can I lighten her face?

[elkidogz]

Originally Posted by Jim Poor

Play with the fill slider in LR

When I did play with it the noise on the shot overwhelmed it, if you look on her dress, it gets ugly pretty quick.

[PhotoPhix]

You must mask the area that you want to edit.

Armando

[Technical Tim]

I would definitly suggest shooting in RAW as it gives much more control to claw back parts of the image that may be underexposed when originally shot - image size does increase so you might need some spare memory cards but worth it in the long run

here is my effort - set the gray point in levels and corrected highlights, adjusted the hue/sat of the blues/cyans, colour curve adjustment to midtones and a bit of dodge

Statue.jpg

[sjlarue]

After seeing the real thing at high noon, (I was driving back home from KY...inlaws) My advice for you is to go back down with an sb600...(900 if you got it) or the like and use it for fill flash. The on camera flash is not enough...I tried ...only because I forgot my sb600. Meter for the sky and set camera's flash control for fill...You should have better luck. If you have a Better Beamer, take it JIC.



I did take a picture that was exposed for the statue...and of course the sky was near white. Since I shot in RAW, I was able to bring a lot back in ACR and a few adjustment layers...but it still isn't good enough.:

The contrast is just terrible.

For those that have never been to the site, there are sky scrapers on 3 sides of the statue. The only sky, is the sky you see. The only sun that will ever reliably get on that statue is the back side..that looked to be the north side of the statue. There might be more light on it during the summer...straight down. Or some reflected light during certain parts of the day when the sun hits a building As it is doing on the back side of the statue. But that's it. There has been a lot of construction since WKRP...

I hope that this helps.