overexposed?

[rosco1971]

just wanna know if you think my photos are overexposed and how the colours are.......if they are washed out at all............i have been told that they are over exposed a little....can anyone give me some feed back?

[grego]

They are a little bit. You want to meter the main subject though. And it depends where you meter, because in the first photo part of him is on the dark side and if you meter there, it's going to try to kick up the exposure(if you are using something other than manual exposure).

Anyway, you can clean that up in photoshop with the lasso and levels/curves/saturation/etc.

[Chazs]

A very small adjustment with the levels and curves can bring some snap to the photos.

[DavidEB]

even with levels and curves, the white parts of the bike around the rear "87" and on the rear wheel stay, and the rider's shoulder, flank and parts of the boots are blown out.

I like to set exposure so there are no blown highlights then rescue the shadows in photoshop. Raw helps here.

[RbrtPtikLeoSeny]

Yea, I've started shooting RAW only because of things like this. It reaaallllyyyy helps! Very easy to fix photo's like this when they're RAW. Unfortunately, RAW takes up so much darn memory!:evil: Drives me insane since I only have a single 1gb card that gets 90 or so shots with RAW.:cry:

[tim]

Yeah they're a little overexposed. The curves adjustment one is a bit much for me.

[Hellashot]

The highlights can easily be darkened and the shadows lightened in PSE 3.