Have You Ever Taken A Picture And Been Shocked At How It Turned Out?
By Rozie37
@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
May 10, 2008 12:01am CST
The other day, I took a picture of the inside of my apartment building. I was trying to get a nice shot of the swimming pool. But when I uploaded the picture to my computer, I could not see a swimming pool. I mean the space was there, but it did not look like a swimming pool to me. Has anything like this ever happen to you?
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@thebeing (657)
• Romania
10 May 08
well, maybe you probably had the camera meter the trees in front of the pool, that's why there is no pool, but just...white. try to have that cross in the midlle of the camera over the pool, over the water itself. You will get darker trees, but you should get detail where you have none in that picture.
Hm, took a second look at the picture. Is it a crop from the original image? or...is it the ORIGINAL image? What camera did u use for this shot? what mode did you use for this shot?
And, you can use that (retaking the shot with a different metering) whenever you take a shot and see that in some parts of the photo, there is nothing but white..."colour". All camera have like a cross in the middle, and most of them have a spot metering system. if that is over a low-lighted object, it will try to bring that object to a higher grade of light, and it will do that with the rest of the picture, as well, thus resulting in overexposed areas in the picture...
Hope that will help.
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@thebeing (657)
• Romania
10 May 08
i'm an amateur photographer... if you would like to see some of my work, you can check out my photo blog (it's on my profile, too..but here's the link: http://emtee-photo.blogspot.com . Enjoy!
And, i hope you understood what i tried to explain. Don't take it as an offense...it's just that photography has a lot of terms that are quite difficult to understand...well, like photography itself, it just takes practice. :)
So, if you didn't understand something from my previous post, please do tell, and i will try to explain again.
Cheers and good luck with your pics! :)
@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
10 May 08
Hi Rozie well I dont want to brag but Im a pretty good with the camera.LOL So no nothing like that has ever happened. Hmmm Im trying to think why that would happen. Maybe it was a ghost.LOL Just kidding I dont. Try taking the picture again.
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