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Paging David Bailey or the Photoisti
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What am I doing wrong when taking pictures outdoors. I always seem to lose a
lot of detail in shadows etc. Here is a link to a couple of examples.
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Have you made this album public?
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Oops! Try this.
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That's better.
The chopper is underexposed due to the brightness of the sky, similar with
the house.
You could try a few different options, depending on the capabilities of the
camera:
- set to "backlit image"
- zoom in until the subject fills more of the frame, set "exposure lock"
and zoom out again.
- bracket the exposure (up/down) and see what works best - depending what
you want to achieve.
Alternatively you can tweak the image with PSP/Photoshop etc but there's a
limit to what these can achieve if there's limited data in the dark areas.
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Thanks to all. The chopper pic was already at full zoom so I guess it's
experimenting with a few exposure stops and go from there.
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Don't you think the shutter speed's a bit too fast for the helicopter shot?
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The second one looks like the helicopter represented too small a target and
so the camera exposed for the sky. I'd have suggested locking the exposure
on the helicopter, but I dunno if you can do that and then zoom out or
whatever. So I reckon that your best bet would have been to force the
camera to over-expose by half a stop or a stop. In the castle one, you
could have angled the camera down a bit at the ground, half-pressed the
shutter and then moved the aim back up a bit. But as others have
suggested, your only hope now is to photoshop or Gimp them.
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Something really simple will help a lot with the example shots - shoot
with the sun behind you.
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Camera is a Fuji s5000.
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Use a polari[sz]ing filter and/or a skylight filter to tone down the sky a
bit. If the sky is important in landscape shots, maybe use a grad ND and
meter for the foreground. If the sky isn't important, just meter for the
foreground and let the sky wash out. A lot of cameras offer a meter lock
facility for just this very purpose.
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I can't be arsed joining that site. You might need 'fill-in flash'..your
camera's manual should have something about it. A quick web-search gioves..
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Looks like your camera's metering's set to average over the entire frame,
see if the Fuji has a "Spot metering" option, if so then (if it's like a
proper Chemical Camera[1]) you should be able to part-press the shutter
button to lock the focus and exposure re the spot in the centre of the
frame, then compose (eg put the 'chopper so it's approaching the centre of
the image) and click the rest of the way - it'll white out the the sky
though, as it'll be hideously overexposed, but that may be an advantage as
you can adjust in Photoshop / equivalent or cut the white / bright areas and
drop the remaining image over something else - helicopter rising out of the
lav, perhaps?
Both subjects in the pics you show are backlit, too, so they're inherently
darker than their surroundings, but at the distances involved fill-in flash
is going to require a small nuke... 10KT or so should do, airburst of
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Fair enough, I guessed the OP was looking for some simple remedy for the
pictures he had already taken rather than a tutorial.
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course, as the colour spectrum of a ground-zero detonation will be way off.
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can you shoot in raw ?
other than that bracket the shots and combine in photoshop
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