 Patrick Besong |
Inconsistent results I have a Canon Rebel Ti and, although I can't quite put my finger on what I'm doing wrong, I get inconsistent results with my photos. One photo will look great, but the next will look overexposed. I'm using the camera's automatic focus only. I have a zoom lens for it and it tends to happen more with it I think than the normal lens. I know the lens is engaged properly to the camera body and I'm holding the button down halfway before taking the picture so the camera will focus. I make sure the red dot lights up on my subject when I focus. Photos look like too much light is getting to them - poor contrast. I'm a newbie to photography, so any help is appreciated.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
are these identical subjects that are being inconsistent?
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Patrick Besong |
Yes, pretty much. For example, 1 will be a photo of my son in a basketball game. Maybe another will be a different angle later in the game. I kind of doubt it would be the processing (using WalMart), as you'd think the whole roll would be that way or maybe half a photo. I'll have to dig up and upload a couple photos.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
That's not what I meant by identical subject. I meant same thing, same distance, same light. You could get more of somebody from the other team wearing dark away jerseys in one shot, and a camera on auto will get thrown off it's exposure some. Whoever's working at the photo lab is supposed to make any needed adjustments to printing pictures. Newer machines read negatives, but just like cameras they can't be accurate for every situation. A good example would be a negative of a landscape of pine trees. The machine would always print too light if you let it do it. You always had to add some density, which is just print it a little darker. And that may be the difference in your prints that are too light. The exposure may have truly been different when you took the picture. But you could have still gotten prints to look the same. So good chance it's not really a camera problem, just need certain pictures to be printed darker.
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Patrick Besong |
No, no "identical" shots that are inconsistent. If I take 2 the same they're normally either both bad or both good.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
2 the same that are either both bad or both good is consistent. so you just have the typical predominant dark areas fooling the meter. sounds like at least.
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