Mini 3 Edmonton Alberta Canada

[3rdof5]

Some cool pics with my mini 3 and sunbeams.

 

[Dale D]

Some cool pics with my mini 3 and sunbeams.

They are nice images but I find the foreground of all four pictures under exposed. This is a common difficulty that I have noted for many posts over the years on this forum. The sensor reads the bright light of the sky, and under-exposes the foreground. The best way I have found to remedy this is by processing these images with the Adobe Photoshop Masking tool. I edited this image in two steps- first used the masking tool to isolate and edit the sky nly.I was able to bring out more of the sun beams.
Next, I used the masking tool on the sky but then inverted the mask to edit the foreground, I increased the shadows mainly. Here was my result before and after dating with the masking tool.


Dale

 

[3rdof5]

Wow! Thank you!
That's an incredible improvement. Fyi I snapped those pics in full Auto mode.

 

[Dale D]

They are nice images but I find the foreground of all four pictures under exposed. This is a common difficulty that I have noted for many posts over the years on this forum. The sensor reads the bright light of the sky, and under-exposes the foreground. The best way I have found to remedy this is by processing these images with the Adobe Photoshop Masking tool. I edited this image in two steps- first used the masking tool to isolate and edit the sky only.I was able to bring out more of the sun beams.

Next, I used the masking tool on the sky but then inverted the mask to edit the foreground, I increased the shadows mainly. Here was my result before and after dating with the masking tool.

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EXACTLY! In audio mode your drone's sensor will read the brightest part of the image (the sky) and expose for the sky. The only way to get a good image is to shoot in RAW, and process each part of the image separately.

I know a lot of our Mavic Pilots hate the cost of Adobe, but the $10/month photography plan gives you access to Photoshop and Lightroom, both using the same processing engine, and including MASKING tool. In working on your image, I processed the sky separately to accentuate the clouds and the sunbeams.

Dale
Miami