At the American Cemetery in Normandy, France was this lovely statue. I tried to shoot it so the sun would be in its hand. But as you can see that gave me a backlit image. Here is another approach to correcting a dark foreground with a bright background. In Adobe Lightroom, I increased Recovery to 100% to tame down the sun and sky. Then to open up the foreground, I dragged the Fill Light slider. This however makes the overall image a little washed out. To correct this, use the Black slider. To add "pop" to the image, I also used the Clarity and Vibrance sliders. I thought the sky still needed some work, so I used the digital Neutral Density Filter to darken the blue. What do you think? Better?
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