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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 370166" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>Sure seems vivid, but dark. I think it was supposed to look like bright sun?</p><p> IMO, about one stop more exposure would help the first one quite a bit.</p><p>Guessing, and reaching, but if it was not Auto ISO, and if camera A mode at f/5.6, then the 1/4000 second limit might be holding it back? But the way the meter system works is that it holds back bright stuff to be about the middle, often requiring our attention to compensate it.</p><p></p><p>It is also possible that you might be adjusting it on a too-bright (uncalibrated) LCD monitor. LCD monitors are notoriously adjusted too bright. Then others with calibrated monitors (and photo print shops too) see your work as too dark.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.scantips.com/g2/edit2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>In Elements, typing CTRL L on the image brings up Adobe Levels. Moving the White Point down to where the data starts brightens it, and can often be a normal procedure. This is the same as Exposure in Adobe Raw. But as shown, I went farther, which clips the data, but this one is only clipping the blue sky. I mostly stopped short of clipping the yellow. The water is just below 200. This new white point (204 here) will become the new 255 right end point (stretching the data upwards, clipping all brighter than it, because data is limited to 255). The preview can show that new result as you go, so you adjust it by eye.</p><p></p><p>Look at it with the original white point about 170 too. We have to call that excessive, but I actually like that better. It comes to life then.</p><p></p><p>You can hold down the ALT key (speaking Windows, and ALT is true of the Adobe Raw Exposure tool too) and then move the White Point, and the display changes to show WHAT you are clipping (as you move it). That is important, clipping loses detail (in those tones), often bad, but some stuff, some clipping doesn't matter, even helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 370166, member: 12496"] Sure seems vivid, but dark. I think it was supposed to look like bright sun? IMO, about one stop more exposure would help the first one quite a bit. Guessing, and reaching, but if it was not Auto ISO, and if camera A mode at f/5.6, then the 1/4000 second limit might be holding it back? But the way the meter system works is that it holds back bright stuff to be about the middle, often requiring our attention to compensate it. It is also possible that you might be adjusting it on a too-bright (uncalibrated) LCD monitor. LCD monitors are notoriously adjusted too bright. Then others with calibrated monitors (and photo print shops too) see your work as too dark. [IMG]http://www.scantips.com/g2/edit2.jpg[/IMG] In Elements, typing CTRL L on the image brings up Adobe Levels. Moving the White Point down to where the data starts brightens it, and can often be a normal procedure. This is the same as Exposure in Adobe Raw. But as shown, I went farther, which clips the data, but this one is only clipping the blue sky. I mostly stopped short of clipping the yellow. The water is just below 200. This new white point (204 here) will become the new 255 right end point (stretching the data upwards, clipping all brighter than it, because data is limited to 255). The preview can show that new result as you go, so you adjust it by eye. Look at it with the original white point about 170 too. We have to call that excessive, but I actually like that better. It comes to life then. You can hold down the ALT key (speaking Windows, and ALT is true of the Adobe Raw Exposure tool too) and then move the White Point, and the display changes to show WHAT you are clipping (as you move it). That is important, clipping loses detail (in those tones), often bad, but some stuff, some clipping doesn't matter, even helps. [/QUOTE]
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