Exposure issue? Have two Nikons. D3200 and D40X. Shoot mainly birds with 55-300DX. Having problems with birds which have white parts on them which are showing up rather pronounced and...

tommckibbin Loc: Liverpool, England.

Have two Nikons. D3200 and D40X. Shoot mainly birds with 55-300DX. Having problems with birds which have white parts on them which are showing up rather pronounced and shiny. Best way I can put it really. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Tom.

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Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.

Are you shooting in raw?

orrie smith Loc: Kansas

tommckibbin wrote:

Have two Nikons. D3200 and D40X. Shoot mainly birds with 55-300DX. Having problems with birds which have white parts on them which are showing up rather pronounced and shiny. Best way I can put it really. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Tom.

it is what it is, the photos are great. sometimes in the spring, colors, including whites and blacks, on birds and other animals are intensified to attract mates.

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Tom,

I would take care of that issue in Adobe lightroom with a adjustment brush for exposure. I would first try the white slider to see if that takes care of it. If not then I would use plan B the adjustment brusg.

tommckibbin wrote:

Have two Nikons. D3200 and D40X. Shoot mainly birds with 55-300DX. Having problems with birds which have white parts on them which are showing up rather pronounced and shiny. Best way I can put it really. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Tom.

Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.

Here's a quick run through ACR. Unable to restore the blown highlights in the jpeg. Try reprocessing the original.

tommckibbin wrote:

Have two Nikons. D3200 and D40X. Shoot mainly birds with 55-300DX. Having problems with birds which have white parts on them which are showing up rather pronounced and shiny. Best way I can put it really. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Tom.

Reprocessed ACR 9.5

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DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Fred Harwood wrote:

Here's a quick run through ACR. Unable to restore the blown highlights in the jpeg. Try reprocessing the original.

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tommckibbin Loc: Liverpool, England.

It's not the birds. It's a light issue.

tommckibbin Loc: Liverpool, England.

Can adjust in editing. Trying to solve problem whist shooting.

tommckibbin Loc: Liverpool, England.

No.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

tommckibbin wrote:

Have two Nikons. D3200 and D40X. Shoot mainly birds with 55-300DX. Having problems with birds which have white parts on them which are showing up rather pronounced and shiny. Best way I can put it really. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Tom.

The highlights are "blown out," because the scene brightness range exceeds the camera's preset JPEG conversion parameters.

Read your camera manual thoroughly to learn how to compensate for this. Or, just record raw images and post-process them in Lightroom or a similar application.

Scenes in bright sunlight can have a brightness range much greater than can be recorded in a JPEG, so you have to use some means of compressing the tonal range into a pleasing facsimile. You'll find some good "pre-processing" tools in the camera menus, but better tools in post-processing software.

tommckibbin Loc: Liverpool, England.

It was a really dull day unfortunately.

tommckibbin Loc: Liverpool, England.

Afraid that's to complicated for a simpleton like myself. Have also scanned manual to no avail.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

tommckibbin wrote:

Have two Nikons. D3200 and D40X. Shoot mainly birds with 55-300DX. Having problems with birds which have white parts on them which are showing up rather pronounced and shiny. Best way I can put it really. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Tom.

Tom, it's an exposure issue. The camera is exposing for the predominant lower values of the scene, of which the image is mostly composed. The other issue is, once the white values are exposed past the level of your camera's ability to retain detail in the highlights, you're pretty much out of luck restoring detail.

The solution is to understand your camera's limits, first. Secondly, careful exposure measurements to make sure your not exceeding the limits mentioned immediately above.

Taking images with the idea that you can "fix" things in post is the wrong path to take. Get the exposure correct in the original capture. That is the critical step.
--Bob

tommckibbin Loc: Liverpool, England.

Thank you.

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Tom,
Do you know where your exposure compensation button is? It has a plus and a minus. Try shooting the first minus step on the camera. Then try the next step and then the next step. Then evaluate the images to your liking.

tommckibbin wrote:

Have two Nikons. D3200 and D40X. Shoot mainly birds with 55-300DX. Having problems with birds which have white parts on them which are showing up rather pronounced and shiny. Best way I can put it really. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Tom.