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Please, why is sky washed out?
Hi everyone!
Why is the sky washed out while my wife with a point and shoot gets blue skys? It seems to me the sky was quite blue when I took this photo: http://celestart.com/images/publiques/15.jpg Any ideas? Recommendations? Thanks, Marcel |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:22:04 -0400, Celcius wrote:
Hi everyone! Why is the sky washed out while my wife with a point and shoot gets blue skys? It seems to me the sky was quite blue when I took this photo: http://celestart.com/images/publiques/15.jpg Any ideas? Recommendations? The sky is over-exposed; basically, it's so bright that the camera sensor is saturating and just sees it as "white". You needed to tell the camera to take in less light, either by using a faster shutter speed or by stopping down the lens. Depending on the features your camera has, there are a variety of ways of doing that. -dms |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
"Daniel Silevitch" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:22:04 -0400, Celcius wrote: Hi everyone! Why is the sky washed out while my wife with a point and shoot gets blue skys? It seems to me the sky was quite blue when I took this photo: http://celestart.com/images/publiques/15.jpg Any ideas? Recommendations? The sky is over-exposed; basically, it's so bright that the camera sensor is saturating and just sees it as "white". You needed to tell the camera to take in less light, either by using a faster shutter speed or by stopping down the lens. Depending on the features your camera has, there are a variety of ways of doing that. -dms Sorry Daniel, I forgot to say. I have a Canon Rebel XT and the lens I used was a Canon EF-S 17-85mm 1 4.5-5.6 IS USM Regards, Marcel |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:01:21 -0400, Celcius wrote:
"Daniel Silevitch" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:22:04 -0400, Celcius wrote: Hi everyone! Why is the sky washed out while my wife with a point and shoot gets blue skys? It seems to me the sky was quite blue when I took this photo: http://celestart.com/images/publiques/15.jpg Any ideas? Recommendations? The sky is over-exposed; basically, it's so bright that the camera sensor is saturating and just sees it as "white". You needed to tell the camera to take in less light, either by using a faster shutter speed or by stopping down the lens. Depending on the features your camera has, there are a variety of ways of doing that. -dms Sorry Daniel, I forgot to say. I have a Canon Rebel XT and the lens I used was a Canon EF-S 17-85mm 1 4.5-5.6 IS USM OK, so you have a camera with a full set of manual controls. A few options: When you meter, meter on the sky rather than the house. This will convince the camera to take in less light. Meter on the house, but dial in a negative exposure compensation. Go into full manual mode, and set the aperture/shutter yourself Switch from JPG mode to RAW mode; there may be useful data in the RAW file that got lost when the camera converted to JPG. -dms |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
Celcius wrote:
"Daniel Silevitch" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:22:04 -0400, Celcius wrote: Hi everyone! Why is the sky washed out while my wife with a point and shoot gets blue skys? It seems to me the sky was quite blue when I took this photo: http://celestart.com/images/publiques/15.jpg Any ideas? Recommendations? The sky is over-exposed; basically, it's so bright that the camera sensor is saturating and just sees it as "white". You needed to tell the camera to take in less light, either by using a faster shutter speed or by stopping down the lens. Depending on the features your camera has, there are a variety of ways of doing that. -dms Sorry Daniel, I forgot to say. I have a Canon Rebel XT and the lens I used was a Canon EF-S 17-85mm 1 4.5-5.6 IS USM Regards, Marcel Canon's have poor exposure latitude. You will have to underexpose every shot to prevent blowout. Experiment until you find the best compromise. -- George Fritschmann III |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
The camera is exposing based on the dark tree in the center of the pic.
In those situations you should either dial in some exposure compensation ( -1 would be a good starting point) or else simply go into manual mode and expose manually. And of course, if you shoot in RAW mode you might be able to recover most of the blown out highlights. |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
The posts re the overexposed sky are generally correct. You can either
under expose or play with it in photoshop and fix it. Both are perfectly good alternatives. Shooting in RAW might help, but RAW isn't the cure-all than many people think. I am "old school" so take my advice accordingly. If you are taking lots of pictures like that and want the sky to look better, keep the sky from overexposing in the first place and everything after that is much easier. The way to do that is to invest in a polarizing filter. That will allow you to darken a sky like that (plus keep interesting details in it) without underexposing the rest of the image. It will also cut out most glare that you encounter. For an autofocus lens, you want a "circular polarizer" (don't ask why, it's a long story, you just want one). People in this group hate filters and they hate people who don't shoot in RAW, but really, a filter is the answer. That's the way we did it back in "the day" when we used that stuff called film. Good luck with it. Pat Celcius wrote: Hi everyone! Why is the sky washed out while my wife with a point and shoot gets blue skys? It seems to me the sky was quite blue when I took this photo: http://celestart.com/images/publiques/15.jpg Any ideas? Recommendations? Thanks, Marcel |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
Pat wrote:
The posts re the overexposed sky are generally correct. You can either under expose or play with it in photoshop and fix it. Both are perfectly good alternatives. Shooting in RAW might help, but RAW isn't the cure-all than many people think. This is impossible to fix in photoshop (except by copying a sky from elsewhere), because the sky is just a solid area of 240 240 240. Obviously, there is not enough information there to do anything. If this had been shot in RAW, maybe it could have been saved, and maybe not. I am "old school" so take my advice accordingly. If you are taking lots of pictures like that and want the sky to look better, keep the sky from overexposing in the first place and everything after that is much easier. The way to do that is to invest in a polarizing filter. That will allow you to darken a sky like that (plus keep interesting details in it) without underexposing the rest of the image. It will also cut out most glare that you encounter. Indeed, a polariser is a good solution, not just to prevent overexposure but to give more saturated skies etc. I don't see how this is old school, though. For an autofocus lens, you want a "circular polarizer" (don't ask why, it's a long story, you just want one). People in this group hate filters and they hate people who don't shoot in RAW, but really, a filter is the answer. That's the way we did it back in "the day" when we used that stuff called film. Good luck with it. Pat |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
Careful use of a graduated neutral density filter might help getting good
color in the sky. What you need to do is cut down on the exposure of the sky while leaving everything else alone. Jim "Pat" wrote in message ups.com... The posts re the overexposed sky are generally correct. You can either under expose or play with it in photoshop and fix it. Both are perfectly good alternatives. Shooting in RAW might help, but RAW isn't the cure-all than many people think. I am "old school" so take my advice accordingly. If you are taking lots of pictures like that and want the sky to look better, keep the sky from overexposing in the first place and everything after that is much easier. The way to do that is to invest in a polarizing filter. That will allow you to darken a sky like that (plus keep interesting details in it) without underexposing the rest of the image. It will also cut out most glare that you encounter. For an autofocus lens, you want a "circular polarizer" (don't ask why, it's a long story, you just want one). People in this group hate filters and they hate people who don't shoot in RAW, but really, a filter is the answer. That's the way we did it back in "the day" when we used that stuff called film. Good luck with it. Pat Celcius wrote: Hi everyone! Why is the sky washed out while my wife with a point and shoot gets blue skys? It seems to me the sky was quite blue when I took this photo: http://celestart.com/images/publiques/15.jpg Any ideas? Recommendations? Thanks, Marcel |
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Please, why is sky washed out?
"Pat" wrote in message ups.com... The posts re the overexposed sky are generally correct. You can either under expose or play with it in photoshop and fix it. Both are perfectly good alternatives. Shooting in RAW might help, but RAW isn't the cure-all than many people think. I am "old school" so take my advice accordingly. If you are taking lots of pictures like that and want the sky to look better, keep the sky from overexposing in the first place and everything after that is much easier. The way to do that is to invest in a polarizing filter. That will allow you to darken a sky like that (plus keep interesting details in it) without underexposing the rest of the image. It will also cut out most glare that you encounter. For an autofocus lens, you want a "circular polarizer" (don't ask why, it's a long story, you just want one). People in this group hate filters and they hate people who don't shoot in RAW, but really, a filter is the answer. That's the way we did it back in "the day" when we used that stuff called film. Good luck with it. Pat Thanks Pat. I tried with my polarizing filter and it turned a tad better. However, the sky was still ooverexposed ;-( I can't try again now because it's overcast... we're getting rain soon ... Marcel |
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