Need editing advice.
Oct 8, 2019 05:00:52 #
Hi, I’ve been into photography for years. First 35mm film and then went to digital. I have never edited my pictures. I guess I’m old school and think what is on the film might as well be set in stone. I shoot with a Nikon D7200 and take a lot of lightning pictures. The other night a storm rolled through and I caught a couple strikes but they were blown out bad. I shoot in JPEG and RAW. Can this be fixed with any technique or program
Oct 8, 2019 05:09:43 #
John Sh
Loc: Toronto, Australia
The answer to many things is the same, "it depends". The secret is in the RAW file. Put it into some editing software and reduce the exposure and the highlights. If the histogram shows a big spike up the right side then there's not much hope but give it a try anyway. You've got nothing to lose.
Oct 8, 2019 05:10:28 #
Oct 8, 2019 05:13:44 #
Thank you very much. What would the big spike be considered? I was told by a photographer a long time ago that he could turn a photo of a turd into a rainbow using RAW. I never gave it much mind but can you really edit to that extreme?
Oct 8, 2019 05:27:12 #
John Sh
Loc: Toronto, Australia
"What would the big spike be considered? "
The histogram is an indication of how "bright" any part of the picture is. A big spike on the right indicates too much light, ie blown out while a big spike on the left indicates too much dark ie no info in the shadows.
I'm not so certain that the "turd into a rainbow" is a very good analogy but a good operator could go close.
The histogram is an indication of how "bright" any part of the picture is. A big spike on the right indicates too much light, ie blown out while a big spike on the left indicates too much dark ie no info in the shadows.
I'm not so certain that the "turd into a rainbow" is a very good analogy but a good operator could go close.
Oct 8, 2019 05:36:15 #
I downloaded into Lightroom and moved highlights -100, exposure -95 and clarity +36. That is just a 30 second pp. Hope that helped.
Oct 8, 2019 05:41:01 #
haylon wrote:
Hi, I’ve been into photography for years. First 35mm film and then went to digital. I have never edited my pictures. I guess I’m old school and think what is on the film might as well be set in stone. I shoot with a Nikon D7200 and take a lot of lightning pictures. The other night a storm rolled through and I caught a couple strikes but they were blown out bad. I shoot in JPEG and RAW. Can this be fixed with any technique or program
A simple edit of the jpeg
Oct 8, 2019 05:43:41 #
Linary
Loc: UK
John Sh wrote:
The answer to many things is the same, "it depends". The secret is in the RAW file. Put it into some editing software and reduce the exposure and the highlights. If the histogram shows a big spike up the right side then there's not much hope but give it a try anyway. You've got nothing to lose.
The image I worked on (just a quick fix in Lightroom), shows quite a lot of interesting material.
I don't know what pp software you have but there is a lot of potential to show the lightening strikes as you can see, it just needs bringing out. If you repost in the Post Processing section, you will get a lot of help and guidance.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-116-1.html
Oct 8, 2019 05:59:04 #
Oct 8, 2019 06:25:03 #
Resqu2
Loc: SW Va
I’m just stopping in to say I have never seen a bolt quite like that one, great capture.
Oct 8, 2019 08:26:57 #
Question: why do you shoot in RAW+JPEG (taking up loads of space on your card for a RAW file) when you don't use the RAW file?
Oct 8, 2019 21:29:27 #
haylon wrote:
Hi, I’ve been into photography for years. First 35mm film and then went to digital. I have never edited my pictures. I guess I’m old school and think what is on the film might as well be set in stone. I shoot with a Nikon D7200 and take a lot of lightning pictures. The other night a storm rolled through and I caught a couple strikes but they were blown out bad. I shoot in JPEG and RAW. Can this be fixed with any technique or program
Most here have beat me to it but this is a quick,30 seconds or so, fix in free Photo Gallery that comes with older versions of Widows 7. It could be better with a newer, more expensive photo processing program. You may want to consider one of the many inexpensive pp software programs.
Oct 9, 2019 07:22:17 #
Haylon,
I too am "old school". I do absolutely no post processing, really get frustrated with the many 'not real' photos I see. You never know what is real or visualized, over cooked and played with. Keep up the good work!
I too am "old school". I do absolutely no post processing, really get frustrated with the many 'not real' photos I see. You never know what is real or visualized, over cooked and played with. Keep up the good work!
Oct 9, 2019 09:21:46 #
Oct 9, 2019 10:18:35 #
First thing first, did you notice that your images are overexposed? If you used matrix metering it was totally fooled into overexposure. Look at the histogram to understand what I am saying.
When I do night photography I use center weighted metering and underexpose a least by 1 stop. It could need more underexposure. The light from the thunder is too bright and overexposure will make it worse.
This is one of those cases where underexposure is good.
When I do night photography I use center weighted metering and underexpose a least by 1 stop. It could need more underexposure. The light from the thunder is too bright and overexposure will make it worse.
This is one of those cases where underexposure is good.
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