 Charles K. Tufuor |
Bright sunlight shots What is the best setting for taking sunlight shots? Last week, I took some shots in bright sunlight, and the faces of the subjects were so dark. I used a white balance setting for daylight and also tried auto but both settings did not help. Please help
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Pamela Njemanze |
It is best to avoid the situation all together (ie: find a shady spot). It's not a white balance issue, but an exposure issue. If you included a lot of bright background, the metering system in your camera tries to compensate for that. You could look into using AE lock feature on your camera, or try not including the bright areas in your photo when taking it (get closer or zoom in), or you can even use your flash if you are close enough to the faces. If you're looking to fix what you have already taken, try adding fill light in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) in either Photoshop Elements or Photoshop. Pam :)
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Charles K. Tufuor |
Thank you Pamela. I will try that.
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Lynn R. Powers |
Set your ISO low and select spot metering. Spot meter on the face. If necessary, zoom in on the face, or get closer so the spot meter only covers a portion of the face, Look at your readings, go to manual exposure and set for the readings you just acquired.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Sounds like you're having problems with the typical midday high-contrast problems.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
You can use your flash... it will reduce the midday contrast.
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- Usman M. Bajwa Contact Usman M. Bajwa Usman M. Bajwa's Gallery |
Shooting in Manual mode, try using the 'Sunny f/16 rule' for daylight shots. It usually works too. And you can always fine-tune the shutter speed, aperture, ISO accordingly if it is still too bright. A brief explanation is at You can also Google it to get more in depth info. A fellow BPer, Carlton Ward, enlightened me on this in one of Q&As last year. Hope this is helpful. UB.
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Peter K. Burian |
I agree with Ken; the solution is to use flash. It's simple in P mode. Just raise the flash and flash will fire for every shot. I don't know which camera you own but if the subject is not within about 8 feet of the camera, the tiny flash unit may not produce enough light to reach the subject. With a more distant subject, you would need to set a higher ISO. Such as ISO 400. With most cameras, you do that by pressing the ISO button; while it's depressed rotate the camera's dial and watch the data change. When you see 400, stop rotating. Cheers! Peter www.peterkburian.com
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