Misc KBFI from 8/9/09

[sporky]

Finally got around to actually editing shots I took. Still have a lot to go through, but wanted to get some feedback on a few prior to editing more.

Thanks in advance for any comments/critique provided.

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-Tad

[jerslice]

They look good, and I'm glad you finally started getting these up!

My only recommendation would be to watch your white balance. It looks like you tried to take out the over-exposed white and turned it a bit too gray in many of them.

[lijk604]

Nice for the personal collection, but the light is just too harsh for JP or Anet....from what I can see. Looks like a case of shooting smack dab in the middle of the day.

[sporky]

Thanks for the feedback. I believe the issue I am having basically still learning what I am doing with taking the pictures and editting. These shots were all taken after around 5pm, so overhead light should not have been too much of a problem. Speeding up the shutter a bit should help not over-expose really white planes and probably should remember to change the ISO to something other than 100.

-Tad

[jerslice]

I would keep the ISO where it is for as long as you can. I hate going above 100 when I don't have to.
The CO 738 arrival was taken at 3:30ish (because I was there too :) ) and I was very surprised at how incredibly blown out every shot I had was. So I didn't use them at all. The others aren't nearly as bad, but I'd agree the light is still harsh.
If you want, send along one of the photos to me in an exif-jpeg form and I'll work it how I'd do it along with notes on what I did. I found and still find that it helps to compare/contrast the outcome and process people would use for the same shots.

[Matt Molnar]

As Jeremy said, I don't think it is your ISO, though I see in the EXIF data for the last photo you had it set to 200. You're best off at 100 as long as the sun is out.

Another thing to look at is your camera's exposure settings. Make sure you didn't accidentally set it to an overexposed setting, i.e. +2 or something.

[jerslice]

Speeding up the shutter a bit should help not over-expose really white planes

Unless you use the camera in full manual mode, using a higher shutter speed won’t actually help make it any less blown out. Unless the exposure is adjusted manually, the camera will just keep moving with your new dialed in setting to produce the same basic result. If you had it on shutter priority dialed in to 1/1000 resulting in aperture of f/4 and it was blown out, dialing in 1/1500 and getting f/2.8 isn’t going to help other than producing a “deeper” image: the lighting situation will be almost identical. It’s sort of like adding 2+3 or 4+1; they both still equal five. And even if the exposure is adjusted manually it is adjusted across the entire image, not just the over-exposed areas. So by reducing the potential over-exposing of certain places you end up increasing the potential for under exposed places on the image. But Gotham is definitely right - make sure your exposure settings didn't get accidentally thrown out of wack.

Solution? To me, when light is as harsh as it was that day it’s finding the right exposure that’ll give you the least amount of post-processing work. Because when it's that bad, it’s unavoidable that you’ll end up having to do some [potentially heavy-lifting] lighting adjustments in PS later.