Bucketlit (backlit) Challenge!!1!!!1!
My attempt looks mediocre, just as i expected 
which is why I need your help!
That’s why i am challenging YOU to accept the mission of helping me to recover this backlit photo, here’s the original photo file
Here’s my attempt to edit a backlit photo:
Here’s the original photo (RAW file)
pls dont ghost me, I really need help in editing backlits 
lemme know how yall edit a backlit, i need feedback plssss
bye bye
70-200
Hong Kong Intl Airport (VHHHX)
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I feel like the best way to edit backlit, is do to everything in your power to not shoot backlit in the first place.
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nice!
here is mine
(took me 1 hour)
i was in a plane
i dont know why , but after the edit
i called the image ‘‘320 bri’ish’’ even though its clearly vistara
RIP Vistara
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Truer words have never been spoken
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Screenshot because I’m too lazy to export but here’s my attempt, this photo is really not all that backlit to be honest. General tips, shadows positive and exposure up are your best friends. Use masks to make sure the background doesn’t get too bright. Make sure you darken the shadowy parts of the plane like the gear manually so positive shadows doesn’t blow them out. Use a tiny bit of clarity/dehaze to try to build some contrast back in. Make sure you decrease blue saturation because fixing backlit normally results in really blue images. Don’t go crazy, keep it minimal. If you do too much you’ll just shift the negative attention from the backlit to the edit.
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here’s my attempt
i forgot to fix the colors
ill post one with better colors
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Here’s my attempt at mine
Backlight:
Edited:
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use masking ig idk if this is a good edit
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Could not be more true when I went to GSP to get my brother I got some good gate shots and some badish landing shots but the thing is THEY WERE (almost) ALL BACKLIT (edit forgot to say but my pfp is a pic I took during that spotting trip)
backlit is my biggest enemy:
LOOOOK!!!
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