Originally posted by anniehp …I'd like to take a picture with part perfectly exposed and part in shadow ...
You can do this in many ways. I will talk about the 2 ways I usually do. {#2 might be faster and useful for you.}
1. Take photo as normal. Then in Post-production, I am using Photoshop so I will talk about Photoshop. Start with that freaking perfectly exposed photo,
1.1.make a copy of it so you have 2 identical, images A and B
1.2. Image A, adjust the setting so that the perfectly exposed part looks good.
1.3. Image B, adjust the setting so that the part in shadow looks good / dark enough to you.
1.4. Put them together as layers and mask the upper layer so you got the best of both worlds in one image.
2. Another ways which is less complicate than #1.
Very often I shoot with multi-segment metering and do it at anywhere from -0.5 to -2.5 to keep the shadow area a lot darker than it should be. Then adjust variate setting in RAW converter software of your choice. As mentioned, I am using camera raw and Photoshop, so I usually adjust highlight and shadow settings, curves setting and so on.
They are more ways to do this, hope you keep on trying.
a few image samples I found on internet:
Last edited by pakinjapan; 10-09-2017 at 06:13 PM.