Blown Out Photo
Feb 23, 2020 14:23:40 #
One of our staff forgot to reset the ISO from darkish room to strobes - JPG photos really blown out, but can see some detail. Any ideas on how to restore them? Make them look as natural as possible.
Feb 23, 2020 14:26:44 #
Pull them up in your digital editor and lower the exposure and / or highlights. Anything with a color value less than 255, 255, 255 (pure white) might have some detail to recover. The RAW file, if available, might have something recoverable beyond pure white. After finding what can be recovered, try a B&W conversion that can 'hide' any goofy colors that result from the recovery.
Feb 23, 2020 14:27:07 #
If it were raw you might get a little out of it but it’s a goner as I see it.
Feb 23, 2020 15:41:54 #
DejaViewsUSA wrote:
One of our staff forgot to reset the ISO from darkish room to strobes - JPG photos really blown out, but can see some detail. Any ideas on how to restore them? Make them look as natural as possible.
You can certainly try, but by the look of them, I thing you're out of luck and there is no recoverable detail left in the highlights, they seem clipped to me!
Feb 23, 2020 16:41:53 #
I know the photo is bad.
I don't need anyone to remind me.
The purpose of the post was to see if anyone had ideas about how to improve it.
Please limit your comments to constructive ideas.
Thanks.
I don't need anyone to remind me.
The purpose of the post was to see if anyone had ideas about how to improve it.
Please limit your comments to constructive ideas.
Thanks.
Feb 23, 2020 21:05:03 #
DejaViewsUSA wrote:
I know the photo is bad.
I don't need anyone to remind me.
The purpose of the post was to see if anyone had ideas about how to improve it.
Please limit your comments to constructive ideas.
Thanks.
I don't need anyone to remind me.
The purpose of the post was to see if anyone had ideas about how to improve it.
Please limit your comments to constructive ideas.
Thanks.
I agree that doing what you can in post processing is your only hope but to that end I see little chance of certain aspects of the image ever being restored satisfactorily. The mans right eyebrow appears completely blown out for example. When there simply is no data to be recovered in parts of the photo then your post processing results will reflect that lack thereof. But hey, that's just my thoughts, give it a go in PP, nothing else, you'll gain lots of knowledge about the potentials of your editing program.
Feb 24, 2020 03:36:26 #
DejaViewsUSA wrote:
One of our staff forgot to reset the ISO from darkish room to strobes - JPG photos really blown out, but can see some detail. Any ideas on how to restore them? Make them look as natural as possible.
You will need a good reader/editor to pull out any remaining details but by its looks, I actually doubt if much can be pulled out of that. If you had captured that with RAW, there would be more details you can recover prior to conversion to final JPEG.
Here is a related post you might want to read. https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-615447-1.html
Feb 24, 2020 06:37:36 #
If the capture was RAW, the RAW file would more then likely work. If it was jpg only, that's about as good as it's going to get.
--Bob
--Bob
DejaViewsUSA wrote:
One of our staff forgot to reset the ISO from darkish room to strobes - JPG photos really blown out, but can see some detail. Any ideas on how to restore them? Make them look as natural as possible.
Feb 24, 2020 07:22:31 #
DejaViewsUSA wrote:
I know the photo is bad.
I don't need anyone to remind me.
The purpose of the post was to see if anyone had ideas about how to improve it.
Please limit your comments to constructive ideas.
Thanks.
I don't need anyone to remind me.
The purpose of the post was to see if anyone had ideas about how to improve it.
Please limit your comments to constructive ideas.
Thanks.
"Can't be done" is a valid constructive reply to the request for aid. We have had similar results of our own. Consider these replies as being commiserative and felt.
My suggestion is to find any shots that may have more information, with the idea of compositing to achieve a better result.
Feb 24, 2020 08:30:46 #
You can get somewhat of a sketch out of this image, but you may or may not like it. With your permission, I can upload a quick one that I did. If you are really intent on making this into a sketch, you could carry it further and do some cloning.
Feb 24, 2020 08:47:49 #
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's a similar situation, but the original is captured using RAW format.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-133857-1.html
Subsequent to this experience, I learned, with immense thanks to one of our fellow members, about Exposing to the Right (ETTR). This is a technique I now use 95% of the time.
--Bob
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-133857-1.html
Subsequent to this experience, I learned, with immense thanks to one of our fellow members, about Exposing to the Right (ETTR). This is a technique I now use 95% of the time.
--Bob
DejaViewsUSA wrote:
One of our staff forgot to reset the ISO from darkish room to strobes - JPG photos really blown out, but can see some detail. Any ideas on how to restore them? Make them look as natural as possible.
Feb 24, 2020 10:53:14 #
Feb 24, 2020 14:29:45 #
DejaViewsUSA wrote:
I know the photo is bad.
I don't need anyone to remind me.
The purpose of the post was to see if anyone had ideas about how to improve it.
Please limit your comments to constructive ideas.
Thanks.
I don't need anyone to remind me.
The purpose of the post was to see if anyone had ideas about how to improve it.
Please limit your comments to constructive ideas.
Thanks.
Sometimes it is useful to know when something cannot be done. Since the blown out white areas are all solid white, there is nothing there to adjust.
You might consider building on what is there and use something to make a highly stylized version of the images using filters or plug ins. Here I converted to gray scale, punched up the contrast, duplicated the layer and used the Find Edges Filter to create outlines setting that layer blending to darken only.
Painting in the missing detail is also a possibility, but that would be one hell of a project.
Feb 24, 2020 14:38:44 #
Stephan G wrote:
"Can't be done" is a valid constructive reply to the request for aid. We have had similar results of our own. Consider these replies as being commiserative and felt.
My suggestion is to find any shots that may have more information, with the idea of compositing to achieve a better result.
My suggestion is to find any shots that may have more information, with the idea of compositing to achieve a better result.
Feb 24, 2020 16:06:43 #
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