 Jeffrey Cole |
How to see white lines on a black background I am an artist and new to the digital camera world. My problem is with my drawings. I have a Canon Rebel XTI, Iuse the same setup as I did with my 35MM camera. 2/500 WT. tungsten bulbs with umbrellas, tripod. shutter release and white photo papre back drop. Here is my proplem. My drawings are very black with white line work on them. If I use an exposure that is correct for the overall work everything comes out beactiful except the white lines. They are no where to be found. If I overexpose the image in order to see the white lines everything else becomes washed out. Help!!
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
How are you determining that you have the right overall exposure?
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W. |
Jeff, the contrast 'distance' between deep black and pure white is to great for your cam to catch in one exposure. You could take two exposures, one for the black, one for the white lines, then blend them in PS or Photomatix (http://www.panoscan.com/PhotoMatrixPage/Photomatrix.html).
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Jon Close |
Good tip from W.S. Jeff, what exposure mode are you using? You can adjust the XTi's Picture Styles parameters for greater Contrast if you shoot in P, Av, Tv, M. Additionally, if you work from the RAW file rather than JPG, you can extract greater dynamic range in post-processing.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
I don't agree that it has to be done with two shots blended. A change in contrast with curves might be all you need. But I'd also look at a change in light position, maybe direct instead of umbrellas.
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Andy |
See this: http://www.betterphoto.com/forms/QnAdetail.php?threadID=26280
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