Help me save a photo
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Saturday I finally had the chance to take my 5 year old out for her first real trout fishing. She got to break in her new hip boots and fortunatly the fish cooperated within the the first 15 minutes keeping her attention span.
We landed two trout together and she had a great time. After landing the second fish she wanted a picture of it. If you can imagine my excitement I had to get my camera out of back pack, get the fish on the bank, show her how to hold it (drops fish), get it in her hands again (more fish squirming), then get camera and take a shot. In the hecticness of the moment I was not going for art…and just put the camera into Green Dummy mode and snapped two quick pics. Both turned out terrible. Way blown out and I cant figure out why. 2 questions. Are any of you willing to try to save this picture for me? I would hate to sacrifice this special picture and toss it aside. I know it is a jpeg but I do not have any fancy software. I typically make basic changes in Picasa and photobucket. I did so with this shot but with poor results.
Also… I have never had issue with my DSLR before. I took probably a dozen shots that day around the same time and all of them have similar characteristics. The ones I took in dummy mode all got blown out. The ones I took in M, adjusting to what the light meter was telling me all came out fine. Any thoughts on what was going on?
Well…here is the photo.
I can have a go at it in a day or two. In the process of converting a spare room to an office/studio and as such converting my desktop to wireless…Nothing but trouble, even the tech guy couldnt get the pc to recognise the wireless adapter..signal is fine as we tested on his laptop…Grrr. Enough of my troubles though.
Anyways I’m no PS expert but it looks saveable and can be improved on. Once I have a net connection (hopefully within a couple days I’ll make an attempt).
As for why your camera overexposd in auto mode.
No idea. The only thing I can think of looking at at the image is that it exposed for her purple sweater ( partial or spot metering) and all the highlights around her ended up being blown.this is a hard one. The shadow info is in there but the color info is blown out. We can go black and white or it could take a while recreating color.
Kevin, the boss, Powell delivers…
You’re not kidding!
Dark is easy. It is hard when they are blown. This is a learning tool for me as well. This one looks cool – kind of artsy.
I hope you don’t mind that I too tried a few things.. A lot of blown highlights but I know your pain in wanting the original image of
Best of both worlds–BW and RGB 🙂
I just noticed that you did the same thing too Kevin lol.. Like the boots idea as well 🙂
Still no interent connection for me at home. Hopefully by tonight I’ll be back up and can give it a go.
Bringing detail out of clipped shadows isnt hard and a little neat image/noise ninja etc can take care of any resultant noise. As Kevin noted, recovering blown highlights is another matter. Of the two its better to “underexpose” than “overexpose”. Theres just not alot you can do with bown highlights.
Im still curious as to what might have caused your camera to overexpose so much if it was in full auto.
It just shouldn’t happen. Exposure comps +/- are disabled in auto modes, in fact any setting the user leaves are. The cameras have “preset” ISO, f stops, etc for each auto mode (sports, backlight, landscape etc)and then adjust accordingly for “proper exposures”. Even the metering modes are preset. Tim, are you sure you were in full auto? If you were in “P” ( full auto with some user lattitude) that might explain whats occured.Any chance you could post the EXIF?
Wow…you guys are really something.
Best of both worlds–BW and RGB 🙂
I just noticed that you did the same thing too Kevin lol.. Like the boots idea as well 🙂I thought the new boot are a major part of the story. I am going to figure out a way to color her face to finish it out. She has the proud smile that we need to show off.
Ben – I had a color one that looked like yours… Great minds….
Looked at data for original picture.
Something seems screwy.
ISO 200 1/15th f4.5 I can undertand a camera on auto choosing, even flash (when there isnt enough light) but+2.0 EV and flash firing I cant, especially in an auto mode unless its Program mode which is exactly the same as your green box full auto but with the ability to change/override some settings. I dont know, off the top of my head of any camera that allows a user to dial in exp comp at the full auto level. The body would never use exp comp, it would simply adjust one of ISO, Fstop or SS to compensate.
Somwhere in your menus should be an option to reset all settings to factory default. See if you can find that and then do it. It may or may not help, but theres little to lose except in camera processing options (jpeg) and a few others you may need to redo.
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