Photo washed out

Hello everyone.

I am wondering if anyone coudl give some insight as to why the photo i took was all washed out.

I had it set on aperture priority, metered and focused on her face and went.

Exif is 1/200 @ 2.8, 24mm, ISo 200, no flash, no exposure comp, as much as it looks like it, the background isn't lit

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Brian,

It can be fixed. I can most an edit if you allow, but you Avatar doesn't say image editing allowed, so i wanted to check first.

Rob

Shooter-boy - go ahead and post. As a side note - how do I add it to my avatar?

Also, I realize it can be done PP, but why does it look like this out of the camera?

There was a lot of bright light around, and some of it was shining on your lens. If you weren't using a lens hood get one. Even if you were there's sometimes just too much light bouncing around. Reduce the backlighting or other light sources.

To fix add contrast.

Brian,

What Tim said was correct. The face is quite underexposed. If you have a look at the histogram however, you will see that it shows overexposure, as the background is blown out.

If you HAD used fill flash, it would have created a much more even illumination between the subject and background. Alternatively, bounce some light back onto her face with a reflector. Either would have worked well.

Below is my edit. Levels for contrast, curves for brightness, and USM.

Her facial features are still a little dark. The above methods would help capture it more accurately.

Hope this helps.

Rob

PS: Go to User CP at top of the page and edit your profile. There is an option in there somewhere.

EDIT: Ah, don't worry - i see you found it!

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Yes - I found it, thanks so much!

Anyway, I didn't have a chance to setup reflectors, yada yada, it was just a quick candid shot as she was working on something @ camp today.

By the way - I see it all over the place, what is USM in PP?

UnSharp Mask... the ONLY way to sharpen (well, IMO anyways...)

Tends to be the best way to sharpen. A digital version of an old process they used to do to film... hence the weird name.

Rob

bcap wrote:
Hello everyone.

I am wondering if anyone coudl give some insight as to why the photo i took was all washed out.

I had it set on aperture priority, metered and focused on her face and went.

Exif is 1/200 @ 2.8, 24mm, ISo 200, no flash, no exposure comp, as much as it looks like it, the background isn't lit

| Byte size: ZERO | Content warning: NOT AN IMAGE

Thanks!


Bryan

It's just low in contrast. Do a auto-levels and/or auto-contrast in PS