This is what happens...

[Art Rodriguez]

when you don't pay attention to the histrogram. You get an blown out background:oops: The sad part is this probably won't be the last time I do this. I feel just like a fool.

Art


http://www.pbase.com/jriggy4439/image/67434205.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/jriggy4439/image/67434208.jpg

[2Shiny]

IMO, it could be worse. Better to have the background improperly exposed than to have the subject improperly exposed.

[Roach711]

I'll second that.

[Mark_Cohran]

Sometimes the dynamic range in a scene is not going to allow you to have everything properly exposed. In that case you either have to shoot multiple exposures and merge to HDR (a pain) or expose for the subject and allow the background to blow.

Personally, I think these are pretty good shots.

Mark

[cdifoto]

^^^^^^ Agreed. Somestimes yous gots to picks yer poisons.

[Art Rodriguez]

IMO, it could be worse. Better to have the background improperly exposed than to have the subject improperly exposed.

So true.

Sometimes the dynamic range in a scene is not going to allow you to have everything properly exposed. In that case you either have to shoot multiple exposures and merge to HDR (a pain) or expose for the subject and allow the background to blow.

Personally, I think these are pretty good shots.

Mark

I do something like that in RSE were I set the exposure for the subject, save and then set it for the background. Merge the two in photoshop and erase the background. But that is when the background is slighty overexposed. Thanks for thinking they are pretty good.

^^^^^^ Agreed. Somestimes yous gots to picks yer poisons.

Yep, that is so true also.

Art

[ssim]

Some fill flash could have saved some of your background. There are scenes where sometimes you just have to accept the background you get in order to maintain the good exposure on the main subject in the overall image.

[Art Rodriguez]

Some fill flash could have saved some of your background. There are scenes where sometimes you just have to accept the background you get in order to maintain the good exposure on the main subject in the overall image.

So I should just accept them the way ther are. BTW, I did use fill flash.

She is working on a portfolio. Whould it hurt her if you put a picture of her with the background blown out?

Art

[Curtis N]

These are fine, exposure-wise. Reducing the ambient exposure would have just made the flash shadows more pronounced and ugly. A flash bracket might have made them less noticeable but that's a different topic.

When part of your background is shaded and part is sunny, you won't be able to correctly expose both.

[Art Rodriguez]

I keep hearing about a flash bracket. I will need to get me one soon.

Art