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How can I best minimise the dark "halo/outline" around a subject apparently (but not necessarily) caused by excessive difference in the foreground and background lighting/exposure?
I have a shot of my nephew fishing on a dock/pier that I took with my brother’s 6 MP Canon Digital Rebel. The main problem being the dark ‘outline’ around the subject. The pic was taken at sunset, ambient light (low light levels) without fill flash and is backlit (semi-silhouette). The image was shot as RAW and saved as 16 bit Tif with no sharpening etc in the PS RAW conversion process. The ‘outline’ gets worse when I bring it into Photoshop and try to sharpen it.
It’s overexposed with the sun kicking off the water – but on the original, when I run the Photoshop Info cursor over the hottest spots they’re still under 255. Would that still cause a dark "fringing"? Surely tones between 0-256 should be ok – it was an 85mm/f1.8 lens, so although not an L lens, it should still be decent quality. So….what is this and how can it be avoided in future, and how can it be remedied or minimised now (with a subtle touch, not a hard cut out) ?
I have uploaded 3 files here http://www.frankgross.com/temp/ one is the entire frame. another is cropped around the boy so you can see the ‘dark outline’ and a third is the the file up- res ‘d in photoshop (bicubic smoother) 200% so you can better see the dark outline.
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I have a shot of my nephew fishing on a dock/pier that I took with my brother’s 6 MP Canon Digital Rebel. The main problem being the dark ‘outline’ around the subject. The pic was taken at sunset, ambient light (low light levels) without fill flash and is backlit (semi-silhouette). The image was shot as RAW and saved as 16 bit Tif with no sharpening etc in the PS RAW conversion process. The ‘outline’ gets worse when I bring it into Photoshop and try to sharpen it.
It’s overexposed with the sun kicking off the water – but on the original, when I run the Photoshop Info cursor over the hottest spots they’re still under 255. Would that still cause a dark "fringing"? Surely tones between 0-256 should be ok – it was an 85mm/f1.8 lens, so although not an L lens, it should still be decent quality. So….what is this and how can it be avoided in future, and how can it be remedied or minimised now (with a subtle touch, not a hard cut out) ?
I have uploaded 3 files here http://www.frankgross.com/temp/ one is the entire frame. another is cropped around the boy so you can see the ‘dark outline’ and a third is the the file up- res ‘d in photoshop (bicubic smoother) 200% so you can better see the dark outline.
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