{"id":10057,"date":"2018-03-05T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10057"},"modified":"2023-10-31T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:06:48","slug":"lightroom-bright-sky-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/lightroom-bright-sky-rescue","title":{"rendered":"LIGHTROOM Bright Sky Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bright sky problem…<\/h1>\n

We’ve all done it – had a great scene to shoot but not got the right filters to balance the bright sky and land!<\/p>\n

We end up with a boring bright sky and really dark foreground – it’s not ideal, but with most camera RAW files you can now fix this quickly in Lightroom.<\/p>\n

The bright sky solution<\/h1>\n

In a nutshell, you can only do this with files where the sky isn’t totally blown out – there has to be some detail in there or nothing can be rescued.<\/p>\n

The process is:-<\/p>\n

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  1. Use a grad filter in Lightroom\u00a0to darken the sky<\/li>\n
  2. Use the luminosity\u00a0mask to keep the hilltops looking normal<\/li>\n
  3. Close the GRAD<\/li>\n
  4. Edit using your normal techniques<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    See it done…<\/h1>\n

    Here it is done on a photo from the Yorkshire Dales<\/a> – aimed at the user with some experience with LIGHTROOM.<\/p>\n