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Blown out photo
Sep 30, 2014 08:40:19 #
OutBack wrote:
Sorry am not hiding, was laughing. Not now. The photo is perfect! You need an ICC corrected monitor at your end. It looks great here even after transit. Add a couple of GAMMA's to the one you have and look again. Also do your photo prints come out too dark?
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Sep 30, 2014 08:51:28 #
Sorry Roxi, we are on about the kidpic? Yea, I hate the smelly little things too but it is a history shot; you takes what you get and toss the rest. Please don't nobody take this to heart. I know this is not the same thing but my Dad would throw up his hand and say "Just remember me !" Every body else got shots - take what you can get and be thankful you got it!
Sep 30, 2014 09:43:22 #
RoxieMarty, I invite you to come and show your work and speak at the senior center where I volunteer. Honestly - any person whom has knowledege they would like to share is welcome in one of my classes. I am especially interested in persons that have the ability to create, manipulate, and modify images inside their camera. Do you qualify? Send me an eMail.
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Sep 30, 2014 09:56:37 #
SteveR wrote:
I used my 50mm f1.8 in a low light situation to take a photo of my grandson yesterday evening. I used P mode (I did experiment with other modes). The photo was taken at 2.5 secs., f1.8, iso 800. and his face came out over blown.
Post the photo with full exif data Steve, right now you're asking how long is a piece of string.
Sep 30, 2014 10:22:42 #
winterrose wrote:
Post the photo with full exif data Steve, right now you're asking how long is a piece of string.
WR - maybe you missed the post where the OP said "sorted"
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Sep 30, 2014 11:11:31 #
Mark7829
Loc: Calfornia
Yup, settings were wrong. 2.5 seconds is long exposure territory. You were wide open, at ISO 800 - ouch. Did you check the histogram after? The exposure meter would have been off the scale. The D800 has one of the highest Dynamic Range at 14.8. Shoot aperture priority for consistent results.
Sep 30, 2014 11:18:08 #
For those of you who are late to the party, I'll repeat a previous post. I took Searcher's advice when my daughter visited yesterday and retook the photo under similar conditions. I had changed ISO to 200, but more importantly had changed metering from matrix to spot. The flesh tones came out perfectly. Again, though, shutter speed was 2.5 and aperture f1.8. As could be expected, the photo was blurry. This was, shall we say, one of those learning exercises.
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Sep 30, 2014 12:15:42 #
SteveR wrote:
I used my 50mm f1.8 in a low light situation to take a photo of my grandson yesterday evening. I used P mode (I did experiment with other modes). The photo was taken at 2.5 secs., f1.8, iso 800. and his face came out over blown.
How did you meter? A spot metering of his face would have not blown out the face, but probably other parts of the picture with the settings you used. A 2.5 sec. exposure is a really long time, but it depends on the conditions, a picture would help for sure.
Sep 30, 2014 12:26:26 #
speters wrote:
How did you meter? A spot metering of his face would have not blown out the face, but probably other parts of the picture with the settings you used. A 2.5 sec. exposure is a really long time, but it depends on the conditions, a picture would help for sure.
Read my post just previous to yours.
Sep 30, 2014 13:54:51 #
Sep 30, 2014 14:03:04 #
OutBack wrote:
A I looking at the wrong picture of the baby? SteveR Arrr
You are looking at SteveR's Avatar, there was no picture posted.
What exactly do you teach?
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Sep 30, 2014 14:35:33 #
Searcher wrote:
You are looking at SteveR's Avatar, there was no picture posted.
What exactly do you teach?
What exactly do you teach?
Thanks for asking, Searcher. My question exactly.
Sep 30, 2014 15:20:04 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
Cameras, even expensive ones, are not infallible. If you were P mode the entire time, then every time you adjusted the shutter speed the camera adjusted the aperture accordingly so that the total exposure remained essentially the same.
Sep 30, 2014 16:22:53 #
RichieC
Loc: Adirondacks
Your shutter speed of 2.5, is it 2.5 (really 1/25 .4 sec.) or 2.5"?
In any case, you should have gotten a horribly blurry correctly exposed image. Your EV compensation +/- with green dot button near on-off switch), must be set to override exposure. Press it, the top screen should read 0.0.
Anyways, something is way out of wack!
Unless you have very subtle exposure issues often, I'd change your Menu>(pencil)> EV steps for exposure contrl> to 1 step. You have it on 1/3... giving you many more choices in shutter speeds... but needing many turns to get to the right shutter speed. At 1 step, it will breeze through shutter speeds much quicker in 1 step increments. If you find that tiny increments are needed, this is a quick change, but most of the time 1 step will be more then enough... but to each his own.
In any case, you should have gotten a horribly blurry correctly exposed image. Your EV compensation +/- with green dot button near on-off switch), must be set to override exposure. Press it, the top screen should read 0.0.
Anyways, something is way out of wack!
Unless you have very subtle exposure issues often, I'd change your Menu>(pencil)> EV steps for exposure contrl> to 1 step. You have it on 1/3... giving you many more choices in shutter speeds... but needing many turns to get to the right shutter speed. At 1 step, it will breeze through shutter speeds much quicker in 1 step increments. If you find that tiny increments are needed, this is a quick change, but most of the time 1 step will be more then enough... but to each his own.
Sep 30, 2014 16:25:37 #
Not being a jerk here but I would highly suggest you purchase 2 books---the 1st being Brian Peterson's on understanding light and the 2nd being The D800 for dummies. Appears you have some great equipment now all you need to do is learn how to use it and stop thinking an expensive camera is all you need to take great photos. The simple fact that you were trying to handhold a D800 at 2.5 seconds tells me nothing the camera could have done to make that photo better. It would never have been sharp!! Read more to gain understanding and you'll have to depend on your camera less to take nice shots of that little one.......
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