With all the sun we’ve been having, I’m wondering if any of you parents are feeling frustrated with overexposed photos. You see a great shot and shoot it but for some reason it’s totally overexposed.
What do I mean by overexposed photos? There is to much light so you lose skin tone, detail, and have an overall washed out look.
One reason for this could be that your ISO is to high. Lots of digital SLR cameras come set on a default ISO of 400. If your photos are looking like this lately…
try going into your menu and seeing what your ISO is set at. If it’s 400, try bringing it down to 100 if your shooting Canon and 200 if your Nikon. I’ve heard that Canon and Nikon have what they call “native speeds”. This means the camera was engineered to shoot the best, most color saturated, detailed photo at it’s native speed (or ISO). Canon is 100, and Nikon’s native speed is 200. Try it out!
Brian and I will shoot 95% of the wedding at an ISO of 100 to get the best color possible. Sometimes I’ll start shooting and see that my shots are overexposed like the one above. It’s almost always because the ISO was to high.
Here is the photo at an ISO of 100. The difference is crazy!
Lots more detail! Lots more natural skin tone. Nothing is washed out. And this is a good, color balanced photo to try changing to black and white or sepia. So that it can look like this…
Recipe for this BW photo. I basically took out the saturation which makes it black and white instead of color. I up’d the contrast and brightness till I got the photo where I wanted it. You can totally do this!
Hope this helps you get some great color, saturated shots this summer. Just think ISO when it’s overexposed photos. And the principal applies to it being underexposed. Instead of bringing the ISO down, you can bring it up for more light on the photo.
Please tell me I haven’t made this too confusing! I did a whole chapter on ISO in DVD 2, so we could dive into it more there. 🙂
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I was JUST struggling with this YESTERDAY! You have superb timing – as usual. I will have to try again now that I know. And, I just checked… my ISO WAS at 400 just like you said! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m so lucky to have found you. I can’t wait to get my DVDs!
Thanks so much Me Ra! I’ve definitely been having a lot of overexposed photos lately!!! This ISO tip is not confusing at all, but very helpful!!
Yeah! I’m so glad this made sense! You know when you’re working way past bed time, and you just can’t see straight! 🙂 That was me last night. So glad it’s helpful for you guys!
Thanks for the tip — since we’re outdoors all the time these days, it’s hard to keep the color in.
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[…] 2. A while back I did a tips post on ISO. The lower your ISO (or what we once knew as film speed), the richer your color. We want deep, rich colors for this shot, so bring your ISO down to 100 (canon) or 200 (nikon). […]
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