Watch your highlights and try to avoid clipping them. Highlight clipping is the effect where something is lit by a bright light in some parts, but not others, and the camera is only able to treat these highlights as pure white (when we know those leaves are not pure white, nor is the dog).
This is especially necessary in situations like the dog or the two lower plant photos here. Ways to compensate for this: reduce the shutter speed (if you're in a manual style mode), or you can set the EV to -1 (most cameras have this functionality). This will darken the photo as a whole and help control for bright situations.
Because the photo is darkened, you're going to probably want to apply a fill light in post processing (there is that term again). This helps overcome limitations of cameras (especially point and shoots), as modern cameras still have a much lower "dynamic range" than our eyes. Our eyes are able to compensate and view more levels of dark and light than cameras right now.
Most photo programs should allow you to do this fill light adjustment or something similar. It's always best to underexpose vs overexpose because once a highlight is clipped, it's gone for good. Shadows can be bumped up and lightened.
Watch your highlights and try to avoid clipping them. Highlight clipping is the effect where something is lit by a bright light in some parts, but not others, and the camera is only able to treat these highlights as pure white (when we know those leaves are not pure white, nor is the dog).
ReplyDeleteThis is especially necessary in situations like the dog or the two lower plant photos here. Ways to compensate for this: reduce the shutter speed (if you're in a manual style mode), or you can set the EV to -1 (most cameras have this functionality). This will darken the photo as a whole and help control for bright situations.
Because the photo is darkened, you're going to probably want to apply a fill light in post processing (there is that term again). This helps overcome limitations of cameras (especially point and shoots), as modern cameras still have a much lower "dynamic range" than our eyes. Our eyes are able to compensate and view more levels of dark and light than cameras right now.
Most photo programs should allow you to do this fill light adjustment or something similar. It's always best to underexpose vs overexpose because once a highlight is clipped, it's gone for good. Shadows can be bumped up and lightened.