Serious light leak on the D7100

Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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I'm thinking that color banding would be a stone cold b---h to fix in PS. If I was going to attempt it I'd probably try using the Color Picker to select the purple and then use a HSL adjustment layer to match it up with some of the existing sky colors. But then you'd probably have to repeat that process a few times at least and then you'd have to make sure all the adjustments match and get a good, smooth gradient and ... Ugh. What a pain. I'd re-shoot it if at all possible.
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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Horoscope Fish said:
I'm thinking that color banding would be a stone cold b---h to fix in PS. If I was going to attempt it I'd probably try using the Color Picker to select the purple and then use a HSL adjustment layer to match it up with some of the existing sky colors. But then you'd probably have to repeat that process a few times at least and then you'd have to make sure all the adjustments match and get a good, smooth gradient and ... Ugh. What a pain. I'd re-shoot it if at all possible.
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I would not even want to try this and I love post processing. The chances of getting a great photo in my opinion are slim to none. Go reshoot it or go on to a new project with the same technique.
 
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Blacktop

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Agreed. Either an NEF or a full rez jpeg file would be better. I tried , but with a small file size like this it's really useless.
 
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Blacktop

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I edited your NEF file. I made 2 versions. In one I replaced the sky, the other I left the sky alone and just tried to fix your light leak problem.

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MartinCornwall

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@Blacktop Appreciate you taking the time out to give it a go. Number 1 is the best out of the two, the band is still there but white. No 2 has cured it but with a cloudy sky you don't get that blue colour in the water. Both have the wrong colours on the headland grass ( worse on the 2nd one). I thought this might be a tough one that's why I asked. Your PS skills are way beyond mine, so it's definitely a re shoot with the eyepiece cover on. Once again thanks for giving it a go and for your time.
PS Number one could look like a cloud bank so is there a way that I could get this NEF after the effort you put in. Thanks.
 
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J-see

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I gave the NEF a try but it's an exercise in futility. I tried to get rid of the purple while processing and then worked a bit at it in an image editor but I quickly end up with a whole different shot and it still has that purple tint. I had no cam/lens profile so I ignored those corrections including vignetting.

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Blacktop

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MartinCornwall said:
@Blacktop Appreciate you taking the time out to give it a go. Number 1 is the best out of the two, the band is still there but white. No 2 has cured it but with a cloudy sky you don't get that blue colour in the water. Both have the wrong colours on the headland grass ( worse on the 2nd one). I thought this might be a tough one that's why I asked. Your PS skills are way beyond mine, so it's definitely a re shoot with the eyepiece cover on. Once again thanks for giving it a go and for your time.
PS Number one could look like a cloud bank so is there a way that I could get this NEF after the effort you put in. Thanks.
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I uploaded a full rez Jpeg to dropbox for you.. You can't edit an NEF file and save it as NEF, because it is not NEF any more.:)


https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7uqq711se1guju/DSC_4177-Edit.jpg?dl=0
 
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MartinCornwall

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Blacktop said:
I uploaded a full rez Jpeg to dropbox for you.. You can't edit an NEF file and save it as NEF, because it is not NEF any more.:)


https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7uqq711se1guju/DSC_4177-Edit.jpg?dl=0
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Thanks for that I have seen them both side by side and it's definitely worth a re shoot. I haven't been shooting RAW for that long but my understanding is that you can do PP in LR and export the NEF as NEF and the changes made are saved in a separate XMP sidecar file. I thought that I could get both of these files and then do some further editing. Maybe I'm mistaken?
 
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MartinCornwall

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J-see said:
I gave the NEF a try but it's an exercise in futility. I tried to get rid of the purple while processing and then worked a bit at it in an image editor but I quickly end up with a whole different shot and it still has that purple tint. I had no cam/lens profile so I ignored those corrections including vignetting.

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Great PP skills J-see. I take it it's just not doable to get the purple off the headland as well without too much effort. As I went down on the shore and got images of the water flowing through the rocks it is worthy of a re shoot as it seems like a lot of effort just on 1 photo. Can you put a full size JPeg into dropbox of your effort for me please? Thanks again for taking the time and effort at giving this a go. :D
 
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dennybeall

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Just for grins tried just the color replacement tool to see the result. Just did the sky and it's not bad - would be acceptable method if you just couldn't do them over. Feather the edges and add a little noise for realism and you could use it
 

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J-see

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MartinCornwall said:
Can you put a full size JPeg into dropbox of your effort for me please? Thanks again for taking the time and effort at giving this a go. :D
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I'm afraid the shots have gone the way of the dodo already. I directly delete the shots of others after I uploaded them. I'd have to start all over.
 
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MartinCornwall

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J-see said:
I'm afraid the shots have gone the way of the dodo already. I directly delete the shots of others after I uploaded them. I'd have to start all over.
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Oh well. Thanks for the effort though. When I was in Mauritius a few years ago I did travel all over just too make sure they were all gone ;)
 
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MartinCornwall

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dennybeall said:
Just for grins tried just the color replacement tool to see the result. Just did the sky and it's not bad - would be acceptable method if you just couldn't do them over. Feather the edges and add a little noise for realism and you could use it
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Another good attempt and thanks for your time. Definitely needs a re shoot and much prefer to be taking photo's the right way than being stuck in post trying to correct them.
 
LostInDornie

LostInDornie

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Many years late to the party but I had the same issue and the fix I found that worked well was this. Take another exposure exactly the same with the lens cap on, this will be a dark frame for subtraction. Now in Photoshop load both images as layers with the dark one on top. Set the blending to be subtract or difference now play with the opacity of that layer.
 
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