Waterfall

Heres a shot of a waterfall I took today. I'm just new to taking landscape shots, I'm a bit disappointed at the blown sky area in the middle area of the photo at the top..

Iso 100, F22, Sh 5.2sec

Any offer suggestions on how to fix this in photoshop, I've tried the selective colour option, but it doesn't improve things that much...

Thanks

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If it were me, I'd probably just clone the vegetation over the white sky. Much easier and it will look better too.

Try and go back later in the day or when it's bright but overcast.

and/or use a split neutral density filter.

I used a ND8 filter as I couldn't get the shutter speed slow enough, I also used spot metering... I should have shot in raw also but had my cam set to jpg only ...

Otherwise nice image. Nice waterfall. Where is this? Wonder how a polarizer would work with that ND8?
Also, if you have lightroom my guess is you can mask that area and use a preset to get that sky blue. Search for free presets as well there are many out there that can fix that.

Thanks guys any tips would be great, This is shot just outside of Richmond in North Yorkshire, UK.
If I had to do the same shot again how would I prevent the sky being blown out, use different metering mode, or recompose the shot , or just underexpose some of the shots?

perhaps an even stronger ND or as i suggested you can try a polarizer to add contrast but not sure how a polarizer combined with an ND would work.

Oh.. i think you can buy a graduated ND filter. Maybe darker on the upper half..

or take two pics. One normal exposure or even under exposed and then take your 2nd shot with the ND and use photoshop to layer them. Then bring out the darker sky with a mask.

billshack wrote in post #12475974
perhaps an even stronger ND or as i suggested you can try
or take two pics. One normal exposure or even under exposed and then take your 2nd shot with the ND and use photoshop to layer them. Then bring out the darker sky with a mask.

Thats what I plan on doing next time bill and I'll be using raw also..

Thanks

Definitely shoot RAW as you gain a stop or two of dynamic range, which well help with the blown sky. Also go back when the sun is angled the side or behind you. And you should get a darker ND filter than a 3-stop, which will help to avoid using such narrow apertures (lot of softness from diffraction). I use a 6-stop and find it not dark enough sometimes.

The split/graduated ND will allow you to darken just the sky area. Very handy purchase if you plan on doing a lot of landscape work.

as well as the graduated/hard ND, you could also use a graduated filter in Lightroom too. That could save some sky...

Dr Lazarus wrote in post #12476178
The split/graduated ND will allow you to darken just the sky area. Very handy purchase if you plan on doing a lot of landscape work.

To support the good Doctor's statements.