I am very new to technique. I just shoot for the moment. Joining 365 is now making me look at photography differently....Trying to learn about light and it's effect on pictures. Is this picture overexposed? Please critique so i can learn..Thank you in advance for your feedback..
Hi Smitha, welcome to 365; have fun! :-)
Well, to answer your question; here on my monitor, it's looking as if there's too much light on the potatoes and beans, but just a little. It's slightly overexposed, but not too bad. :-)
In the below picture, everything in neon green is overexposed, meaning that the camera only captured white pixels. To fix this, you need to increase your shutter speed (make it faster), lower your ISO, or increase your aperture.
Doing any of those will make the rest of the picture darker, but you can edit it in post production to brighten the shadows. However, when your camera only records white pixels, there is very little you can do with them in post, which is why it is typically better to underexpose an image, and brighten it later.
With all that said, please keep in mind this is strictly technically speaking. Just because there are a few overexposed spots in a shot doesn't make it a bad picture. In fact, I quite like it, and won't suggest you change it.
@shadowdancer Thank you very much for the feedback. I am enjoying 365, Learning something new everyday. You are absolutely correct. Less light would have meant that the more of the natural color of the potatoes would have come through. Thank you for taking time to reply. @gurry..thank you so much for taking time to explain. It is very informative and great explanation for a newbie like me. I understand that less exposure in this picture would have made the more of the beans and potatoes natural color would come through. I have been just doing point and shoot pictures most of my camera life. But your feedback is motivating me to learn more about shutter speed , aperture and ISO. Will do more research and learn about using different combinations of these. Thank you once again.
Yesterday I was sitting inside in a photo seminar instead of enjoying a lovely spring day. One thing the the instructor said was one out of focus picture is a mistake, twenty is a style.
Photography is an art used to convey emotion. Sometimes "over exposure" accomplishes that. As you learn technique you will find that there are lots of "rules" Once you learn the rules then you get to master breaking them.
@smithak I will leave the more technical stuff to those who know better. @gurry Gary, cool trick with that green highlighting. How'd you do that? Great teaching tool.
However from feeling perspective, its your place as the artist to decide what you meant to convey. Did that exposure convey the feeling you wanted?
The feeling I got was a bright warm sunny day at the market. A nice time that makes me smell the veggies, hear the crowds, and feel happy.
If you were going for the wonder of the colors or the overwhelming abundance of variety than slightly less exposure might have conveyed that more.
I am new as well, and if I am unsure, I do a lot of bracketting. I am finding that the meter isn't always what I want. One of my pictures earlier this week was completely underexposed according to the meter. But it was the mood I wanted.
@tigerdreamer I did this with Photoshop. You can select a color range (in this case white), and then easily change it to another color. I should have adjusted the tolerance a bit though, because it also grabbed a spot in the background which was actually gray.
@gurry Thank you for the link. Will be referring to it often. Great tip for figuring out overexposure in pictures.. @mcrt I love what your instructor said. It is very true. Thank you for your response and also for reminding me not get too stuck with "getting the picture correct" rather " getting the emotion" correct!! @tigerdreamer thank you so much for taking time to provide me detailed feedback. It means a lot to me. The feeling you got was def. major part of what I was trying to communicate. So success there. I wish I had done a better job of capturing the variety and color of potatoes. As all you experts are advising, less light would have accomplished that better, higher shutter speed might have done the trick too. Bracketing is a great idea. Ii will start trying that. @ladyjane thank you vey much for your feedback.
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Well, to answer your question; here on my monitor, it's looking as if there's too much light on the potatoes and beans, but just a little. It's slightly overexposed, but not too bad. :-)
Doing any of those will make the rest of the picture darker, but you can edit it in post production to brighten the shadows. However, when your camera only records white pixels, there is very little you can do with them in post, which is why it is typically better to underexpose an image, and brighten it later.
With all that said, please keep in mind this is strictly technically speaking. Just because there are a few overexposed spots in a shot doesn't make it a bad picture. In fact, I quite like it, and won't suggest you change it.
Hope that helped! :)
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Hope it also helps you! Remember, the technical stuff is only a part of photography, but mastering it will greatly help your artistic endeavors :)
Photography is an art used to convey emotion. Sometimes "over exposure" accomplishes that. As you learn technique you will find that there are lots of "rules" Once you learn the rules then you get to master breaking them.
However from feeling perspective, its your place as the artist to decide what you meant to convey. Did that exposure convey the feeling you wanted?
The feeling I got was a bright warm sunny day at the market. A nice time that makes me smell the veggies, hear the crowds, and feel happy.
If you were going for the wonder of the colors or the overwhelming abundance of variety than slightly less exposure might have conveyed that more.
I am new as well, and if I am unsure, I do a lot of bracketting. I am finding that the meter isn't always what I want. One of my pictures earlier this week was completely underexposed according to the meter. But it was the mood I wanted.