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Title: Technical photography question
Post by: xrtoronto on October 05, 2006, 11:28:03 PM

Need a bit of help from someone who knows how to resolve this problem:

(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2483/img0733tv7.jpg)

As you can see above, the interior of the dark hallway is ok, but the outside is severely over exposed. I tried several different settings today, but all pics came out more or less the same way.

How do you shoot from a dark area into very bright sunshine, like in the picture above and avoid the problem(s) I'm having? I want the interior of this hallway to be visible and the outside to be normal.

Title: Technical photography question
Post by: ByeBye on October 05, 2006, 11:39:35 PM

Film cameras handle these conditions better than almost all digital cameras.

If you find digital photography something you might really get into and stick with, I recommend buying a copy of Photoshop CS2.


To fix it/shoot it with what you've got plus photoshop CS2, you could use the HDR (high dynamic range) photo merge feature.

Basically, you take a series of bracketed exposures, then combine them in Photoshop to create an image that has a very high range of lighting.

Title: Technical photography question
Post by: JB88 on October 05, 2006, 11:40:39 PM

first rule.  what would mcguyver do.  remember this above all other things.  practice it.


ideas:

it might be a good idea to meter the light outside of the hallway and use that setting for your shot. (if you can do that with your camera...and i am guessing that you can) you can get the right exposure for the outside and then you could either lighten the interior in post production.  (pending the information is there.


a better idea would probably use a strobe or a diffused flash to illuminate the interior of the space while metering for the light outside.


learn photoshop.  its the same thing as a darkroom really.  post production can be very very valuable.   use it to your taste, but dont neglect to learn it.  it is a must if you are serious.

oh.  and for the last time.  stop shooting everything at high noon.  i mean it.  



this is where i would begin...dont know how it will work in this situation but you might give it a shot.



good luck
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