Recovering skies

A common problem with digital photography is blown-out skies. Fortunately, shooting …raw makes it much easier to recover a blown-out sky and bring some of the color back. …In this photo, here I'm going to go ahead and click Auto inside the Camera Raw dialog box, …and that starts to pull the Exposure down. …Next, I'll take advantage of the Highlights slider, and this allows me to adjust them separately. …You'll notice in the histogram there as we're pulling that, the highlights are starting …to move more detail into the midtones. I can continue to pull the overall exposure down …a bit and really bring back that sky.…

The issue here of course is that while I've recovered the sky, I've thrown the rest of …the subject pretty dark. This is where the Shadows slider can come into play and you can …start to lift that out a bit. And notice by combining Exposure, Highlights, and Shadows, …you could very quickly achieve a proper exposure. …If necessary, you can always grab the Adjustment Brush and using an option at the bottom here, …