 | Shooting a scene with lots of sky often results in a photo with a dark foreground. If you dont carry a graduated neutral density lens filter in your camera bag here is a solution! In this image the exposure was set for the sky and so the foreground grass appears too dark and under exposed. A graduated neutral density lens filter would have been the answer to this problem, but I did not have one handy at the time I shot this image |
| Its not a problem for me, Ill create one in photoshop! |
| First well create a Levels adjustment layer. |
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| Then I move the right slider to the left to lighten the whites, and then the middle slider to lighten the grays. Notice the sky is now blown out, but the foreground grass appears to be just the way I think it should be. |
 | Im then going to select the gradient tool. |
| With the gradient tool selected, were going to make a gradient mask to block out the blown shy, but keep the adjusted foreground grass. |
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| Make a gradient black to white from just above where the sky meets the foreground and voila! Instant graduated neutral density lens filter! |  |
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