 Joseph M. Kolecki |
Not Enough Light Ok, I have a question... I have been doing wedding photography now for some time. I shoot with two Nikon D70 SLR's... they do a pretty ok job except for the fact that my photos always seem to have a very light grey film... as if the exposure is not correct. When editing in Photoshop Elements, after doing the auto exposure, almost every photograph transforms from this dull greyish photo to this vibrant bright photo with proper skin tones and brilliant backgrounds. Now I shoot with a SB600 flash both outdoors and indoors to make sure I get no dark faces in my photos... I use an omni bounce on the flash and have tried many different F stops to try and stop the grey/dark film. I have also tried playing around with the white balance, but have had no luck as of yet. I know this is a setting that I do not have right because it happens with both D70's... Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
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Julie M. Cwik |
I don't have a D70 but I do have a finepix s2 pro and I am dealing with the same problem, not that I wouldn't touch up every photo in photoshop anyways..... you might want to check to see a setting for certain types of "light" or your color "viberancy" if that is a word and see if that helps. Julie
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Nicole Kessel |
Hi Joseph, Do you have an example photo you can post? Are you using the same lens?
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Pete H |
One of the chief complaints with the D70 is underexposure. I won't go into all the tech mumbo jumbo, but it does exist. Three remedies: 1) Meter mode. Have you tried spot, center wt and matrix and then compared? 2) Add +.5 to +.7 EV 3) Download the sREALA custom curve. Pete
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Nicole Kessel |
It does look underexposed to me, Joseph. I have a feeling that Pete is right. Try taking a similiar shot (one with lots of white and some black) with your settings now. Then take another in Matrix metering mode and see if there is a difference. If the camera is on spot or center weighted metering and it meters on the white in the photo it will render it gray like that.
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Justin G. |
Yeah that's not a grey film that's just pure underexposure.
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Joseph M. Kolecki |
I really appreciate it guys, I will try that and post the new results after my next wedding. Thanks again.
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Justin G. |
Oh yeah, in this wedding pic you probably are in evaluative metering and the meter caught the white and metered for it trying to make it that 18% grey everyone talks about. This is why it gives the appearance of "grey". Set your camera to partial or spot metering and use the old film addage (sp?) Meter for the shadows, develop for highlights Meaning: meter the tux and develop (Photoshop) for highlights. Now i'm not good in the digital world so I'm not sure if this will blow out the white with no detail giving you Zone IV on the Zone System. If so you can always meter off a gray card.
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Justin G. |
Correction: no detail would be Zone IX. I don't know my Roman Numerals very well. You also didn't mention what lenses you were using. Maybe its time to invest in some faster lenses if you aren't getting good shutter speeds. If I shot Nikon I would look into the 85mm f/1.4 and the 70-200 f/2.8 VR for my wedding lens lineup. Shooting low light photography like weddings requires to have those fast lenses. Esp. when you can't use flash or don't wanna disturb the atmosphere. (or you just plain want to play "sniper"!)
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Joseph M. Kolecki |
Quick question... I have been shooting with different metering modes to correct the exposure problem. I am particularly fond of 25% center. What I am wondering is, does that 25% move to the different brackets as I select them in the viewfinder? You know how in most digital SLR cameras you have the five black rectangular areas to highlight in order to focus on certain areas of what your framing... does the metering mode follow which rectangle is highlighted and make that the 25% concentrated exposure? Forgive me if I did not ask that right...
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Nicole Kessel |
I believe you are correct. Whichever focus bracket your using is where the 25% center will take it's reading. You can also use the center focus ring and then hold the shutter button down half way, then recompose and it will remain at the same exposure.
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