Edoca From Belgium, joined Mar 2005, 687 posts, RR: 10 Posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2585 times:
I recently had the following pic rejected for exposure:
Of course, it does look overexposed, but all it is really is the sun's reflection on a very small strip of the fuselage. Bad luck I guess, because the next plane a few minutes later didn't have it.
I shot this in raw and with exposure compensation. In Photoshop, I played around with the exposure but this reflection is so strong that I would need so much underexposing that the rest of the pic would almost be black (slight exaggeration).
I've tried playing with the levels and darkening highlights but that doesn't really work neither.
Is there any method that would work? And secondly, is the exposure really unacceptable for A.net in this case? Thanks for your opinions...
Fly747 From Canada, joined Apr 2005, 1497 posts, RR: 10 Reply 1, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2575 times:
Try playing with the shadow/highlight feature under Image and Adjustments and maybe you will be able to fix it. It has helped me with a couple of images.
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 53 Reply 2, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2561 times:
Quoting Edoca (Thread starter): Of course, it does look overexposed, but all it is really is the sun's reflection on a very small strip of the fuselage.
Not really Ward, the entire photo looks overexposed, not just the glare strip. Using the camera's metering, it has to decide what percentage of the image is light, and what percent is dark, and then expose for it. By the looks of your image, the camera saw more dark area and exposed for it, making the light areas unacceptably light.
I assume that would be a circular polarising filter? Great suggestion! Funny, I regularly use that in "other" photography, but it hadn't really come to mind for aviation...
Quoting JeffM (Reply 2): Using the camera's metering
Jeff, referring to the earlier post on that subject, would this have been a situation where your metering device would have helped?
In any case, with the raw versions available, I'll give it another try maybe. Thanks for the help so far.
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 53 Reply 5, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2484 times:
Quoting Edoca (Reply 4): would this have been a situation where your metering device would have helped?
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