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Jay A. Grantham 		 

Ideas on exposure?


 
  Horse & Boy Exposure Lesson
Horse & Boy Exposure Lesson

Jay A. Grantham

  
 
Two images taken 30 seconds apart.. late in the day with the sun coming through trees off to my left. It looks like the sky is over exposed in both photos to me. Any ideas on possible correct exposure?

In this case, I can only control ISO and WB because of the camera that I used.. I'm just trying to use this as a learning experience.

Thanks for any help.

--jay


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November 07, 2005

 

Jay A. Grantham 		  Ok.. I'm not the boy.. the sun is coming through trees on "my" right.


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November 07, 2005

 
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Gregory LaGrange's Gallery 		  Correct exposure for the kid isn't going to be correct for the sky. Choose one then try to dodge or burn in the other.


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November 07, 2005

 

Pete H 		  Hi Jay,

1) f/3 is not a good choice here as you have limited depth of field. You can see the young man is not well focused.
2) Increse your ISO so you won't have to shoot so slow.

Technically, this is a rather difficult shot to expose properly.
There are several ways as one poster has already mentioned, dodge & burn.
You can also shoot two shots sequentially, expose for the boy and the next one, expose for the horse..sandwich the two images and erase away the overexposed parts.

If ya really want to get crazy, shoot with a off cam flash that has barn doors to block the flash from striking the horse and allow the flash to strike to boy.


May your light be pure,

Pete


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November 07, 2005

 

Jay A. Grantham 		  Thanks guys for taking the time to look.. after dodge-ing and burn-ing a bit.. it seems there are actual three exposures.. horse/boy/sky.. I'm not interested in keeping this picture.. just thought it would be something I could learn something from.

I should have taken the time to try increasing the ISO to try and get a smaller aperature.. but the questions really didn't come up till I was looking at them next to each other.

I had no idea that the late afternoon sky (away from the sun)would be a problem.. but I guess it's relative to the darkest part of the image.

Thanks


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November 08, 2005

 
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