questions on how to fix these for next time
Oct 17, 2011 17:18:53 #
i took these couple weeks ago n i have no idea how to fix her hair it was soo bright out so what can i do to better myself next time thanks!
Oct 17, 2011 17:23:12 #
You might want to try using fill flash and dial down exposure.
Were you using a reflector of some sort? It looks like there was some light coming from the right hand side.
Were you using a reflector of some sort? It looks like there was some light coming from the right hand side.
Oct 17, 2011 17:27:05 #
You can meter for her hair and/or use a small reflector under thier faces/to the camera's right
Oct 17, 2011 17:30:15 #
KG wrote:
You might want to try using fill flash and dial down exposure.
Were you using a reflector of some sort? It looks like there was some light coming from the right hand side.
Were you using a reflector of some sort? It looks like there was some light coming from the right hand side.
hi KG no i sure wasnt i was just snappin some pictures and this is how it all turned out i like them but her hair is so bright i just didnt no what to do
Oct 17, 2011 17:31:58 #
Oct 18, 2011 09:41:50 #
Watch your histogram. It should have told you that these shots were overexposed. In other words, the histogram would have been pushed off too far on the right side. Like others have said, turn down the exposure compensation for starters. In this particular instance, you might have moved your subjects to another spot where the lighting wasn't so harsh.
Oct 18, 2011 09:42:29 #
Watch your histogram. It should have told you that these shots were overexposed. In other words, the histogram would have been pushed off too far on the right side. Like others have said, turn down the exposure compensation for starters. In this particular instance, you might have moved your subjects to another spot where the lighting wasn't so harsh.
Oct 18, 2011 09:56:58 #
You need to expose for the highlights and either light or digitally fix the shadows.
The range of this image is such that if you hold the highlights, the faces will be in shadow. Lighting can help this, as can a little digital darkroom magic.
When the highlights are blown out, without any detail, in digital, you are cooked, more or less. The "less" of it is, say, if you shot a bracket at motor drive speed and steal the hair from the best hair bracket shot and place it on the best face exposure shot.
The range of this image is such that if you hold the highlights, the faces will be in shadow. Lighting can help this, as can a little digital darkroom magic.
When the highlights are blown out, without any detail, in digital, you are cooked, more or less. The "less" of it is, say, if you shot a bracket at motor drive speed and steal the hair from the best hair bracket shot and place it on the best face exposure shot.
Oct 18, 2011 13:10:16 #
The simplest way might be to use a filter in post processing to just slightly alter the color in the image. Piccasa contains a number of them and the program is free.
Oct 18, 2011 15:50:16 #
There is no filter which will recover lost image data. When whites are blown out, they have no detail to recover. This is where film beats digital, by the way, because when exposing for shadows, even if the highlights seem to be gone, almost always, you can dig into the dense portion of the image (the blown out highlights) and recover the detail. This applies to negative film only, and works in both traditional chemical darkrooms as well as when using scanners with excellent high Dmax facility, at least 4.0 or better.
Slides (transparencies) are much like digital, where lost detail is lost forever.
Slides (transparencies) are much like digital, where lost detail is lost forever.
Oct 18, 2011 16:00:23 #
Oct 18, 2011 16:11:54 #
Under those harsh lighting conditions you did much better than I could so bravo! When you can control the time of day for a portrait shoot aim for early morning or evening, an hour or two before sunset
the magic hour. This way the sun is low in the horizon and not nearly as intense. This is why I hate doing weddings or events, I am at the mercy of the sun and the event time. When possible, shoot in the shade on bright sunny days or bring out a remote flash to light up those harsh shadows and balance out the exposure. Bright sun is always tough, I avoid it whenever possible.
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