In another thread I posted a link to a comparison I've made of shadow recovery plugins. I'm sure that those of you who are interested will have had a look, but I've now been asked to post the images here, so apologies if you've already seen them.
I'm sure we've all had the same problem with landscape shots - get a good sky and the foreground's too dark; get foreground details and the sky gets clipped.
In the past I've made two conversions and merged them, but with mixed success, so I started to look for a "one-shot" solution.
The image I've chosen is nothing special, but it does demonstrate the problem quite well, and may be familiar to some of you.
Here's the preliminary conversion in RSP to get the best sky and cloud detail.
And as a benchmark, here it is using the Lighten Shadows control in PSE3. It does a pretty good job, but loses some saturation in the shadows.
I'm sure we've all had the same problem with landscape shots - get a good sky and the foreground's too dark; get foreground details and the sky gets clipped.
In the past I've made two conversions and merged them, but with mixed success, so I started to look for a "one-shot" solution.
The image I've chosen is nothing special, but it does demonstrate the problem quite well, and may be familiar to some of you.
Here's the preliminary conversion in RSP to get the best sky and cloud detail.
And as a benchmark, here it is using the Lighten Shadows control in PSE3. It does a pretty good job, but loses some saturation in the shadows.