Tara R. Swartzendruber |
how to fix photo
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
Tough one... You could carefully brighten the 2 students a number of ways (screen layer, tweaking its opacity... Dodge tool (not my fav)... Curves, etc. but I suspect you won't pull much in the way of useful details out of the blackness surrounding them. If you can shoot in RAW, you'll find Adobe Camera RAW offers some slick, easy exposure-adjusting tools during RAW conversion (that I find easier/more effective to use, than the exposure adjustments in Photoshop proper.) Whatever edits you end up making to this, I'd suggest a pretty tight crop to eliminate most of the blackness, and make the photo about the 2 of them, not the surroundings. If you shoot more like this, try zooming in (or getting physically closer) so that the subject fills more of the frame to begin with---perhaps not going for full-length body shots, but headshots, or head-to-waist... Just my two cents!
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Randy A. Myers |
Your fix looks good. The situation is bad having black unis on a black track at night. The camera you used is capable of a higher ISO and I think you should have bumped it up to a minimum of ISO 800. This will get a little more reach with a flash. The best solution is to get as close as you possibly can. Flash doesn't go as far as most people think for sufficient lighting. To calculate this use the formula Guide Number = Aperture x Distance for your flash's base GN. Doubling your ISO increases your Guide Number by a factor of 1.4 thus giving you more reach with sufficient light. By all means, shoot RAW or at least RAW+JPG. Much easier to get quality out of a manipulated RAW file.
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Bob Cammarata |
I played around a little with my Capture NX Software (..which you should have with your D-700). The "D-Lighting" feature on Capture NX really helps to balance uneven lighting. (A slight Curves Adjustment and sharpening were applied in addition to the D-Lighting.)
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