Skate photo

[merman]

i took this @ 1/125 with a flash

[maurid007]

This is a really cool picture, but it look a little over exposed
the ground its too white.

[tirediron]

Good action shot, but as maurid mentioned, definitely over-exposed, about 2/3 - 1 stop over I would guess. You can probably improve it with a levels/curves adjustment. Be careful when dealing with scenes like this that have large white areas in them, they tend to have a bad affect on camera meters. If in doubt, either compare your exposure to the daylight exposure rule, or meter your hand and add one full stop, or meter some nice green grass.

[merman]

Good action shot, but as maurid mentioned, definitely over-exposed, about 2/3 - 1 stop over I would guess. You can probably improve it with a levels/curves adjustment. Be careful when dealing with scenes like this that have large white areas in them, they tend to have a bad affect on camera meters. If in doubt, either compare your exposure to the daylight exposure rule, or meter your hand and add one full stop, or meter some nice green grass.

thank you, i use the +1 stop rule when shooting in snow, i dont know why i didnt use it with that nice white concrete that is similar to snow lol i was also using a hot shoe flash that i have never used before. To top it off it is VERY old school lol

would a 18% grey card be a good addition to my bag?

[tirediron]

thank you, i use the +1 stop rule when shooting in snow, i dont know why i didnt use it with that nice white concrete that is similar to snow lol i was also using a hot shoe flash that i have never used before. To top it off it is VERY old school lol

would a 18% grey card be a good addition to my bag?

A grey card never hurts, but these days a white card is actually more useful, because that allows you to correct white balance. The reflectivity of typical, green lawn-grass is almost identical to that of a grey card, and caucasian skin is usually just about exactly one stop brighter than 18% grey. Be careful if you're using a Nikon (I don't know about Canon) but their meters are indexed differently, to something like 23% grey. This caused me no end of annoyance when I got my first D70, and when I called Nikon, they refused to agree that 18% grey was an accepted industry standard, and would not tell me what their meters were actually calibrated to!

[merman]

i dont have a good post editing program for this computer (yet) i generally use gimp, but i tried to adjust the levels a little bit. let me know what you think

[tirediron]

i dont have a good post editing program for this computer (yet) i generally use gimp, but i tried to adjust the levels a little bit. let me know what you think

Don't sell Gimp short; it's an outstanding program (but not the easiest to master). You've definitely made improvements, but you've lost in the skin tones. This one really needs to be done as a series of layers, with individual corrections on each.

[Marko]

This corrected photo is much better!

If it were mine, I'd probably also do the following;
-crop out more sky (maybe 10-15%)
- darken the ramp a wee bit more
- get the red/orange out of the skateboarder's face

Hope that helps,

Marko

[merman]

i wasent selling gimp short at all, i just dont have it on this computer, IMO open source is the way to go, Adobe has too much money lol


once i get my computer up and running i will give it another try, i was just using a stock program that only let me adjust saturation, brightness and contrast.

thank you for the input

[cdanddvdpublisher]

it's a great capture - another option for getting rid of the white is to crop a bit more of it out...