Overexposed?

Poolkas

Senior Member
Hello. I am intrigued about the word "crazy"! Could mean great, or terrible, in which case I would not be averse to helpful suggestions. And it would be interesting to see the "killer HDRs". Thanks
 

steptoe

Senior Member
I'll have a try with HDR on some shots like that, I did some water weir shots local to me, but I did have a variable ND filter which enabled me to play with the settings to see what aperture and speed settings did what as I'm still trying to get my head around the combinations of ISO, aperture and shutter speeds working with each other or against each other and did get some fair shots


Some places you can visit near me allow cameras but no flash, so this is where the DSLR will come out over my step up from my Fuji S1730 to my first SLR. Its just a pity I didn't have an SLR the last couple of times we went to Egypt as I had to use flash in a lot of places we had access to as they were pretty dark or overcast, not part of a tour but we just went where we wanted for as long as we wanted, no rush and had access to places where tours just wouldn't be allowed as there was only two of us so had more freedom to 'wander' unhindered and after bartering with the 'guard'
 

KWJams

Senior Member
First off, I am not skilled enough to say what to do or not to do. But the first question that jumped out at me was what was your metering and white balance set at.
Looks like auto white balance and Pattern metering.
With the dull sky and dark foreground I would have set the white balance for overcast and the metering to centered weighted then tried a test shot and look at the histogram for blinkies and then adjust exposure valves take another shot with AE-L button.

By just adjusting the historgram on your shot so the blacks are not so black and the whites are not so white I was able to come up with this. Unnamed (Medium).JPG
 

Poolkas

Senior Member
Hi KWJams,
Thanks for the comments. The weir looks very blue! The sky wsn't overcast, it was a sunny evening with little cloud. That was the problem. The sky was a lightish blue. I went back this evening. More clouds but less light and also much less water. I'll just have to wait for the rain and the dark clouds!
Thanks
 

steptoe

Senior Member
Or this, using LightRoom 4 and about 5 minutes of playing around with the settings. Auto on LightRoom 4 can do a pretty good job sometimes, or be used as starting point to change things a bit more

I'm far from a pro at using LightRoom, but find it helps when/if I want to make changes

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