Advice on brightening pictures

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I've taken some photos outside on a sunny day, plenty of color to the eye
Im shooting in AV priority on my Canon 40D 24-70 2.8f lens at 2.8 at 400iso

As you know, the shutter speed is automatic on this mode and it shooting at 1/6400, 1/500 around that area

I now have the picture on PC and looks dark with no color, how can i fix the color without distorting or effecting the quality of the image>


Thanks for your help in advance
 
Sounds like the shot was under exposed due to a bright background (sky possibly?). Without seeing the shot it's a little hard to offer much advice, even more so withou knowing what s/w you're using. In general terms you need to boost the shadow areas using curves or fill light/flash if your s/w has the option. There are some other methods but we need to know some more info first...
 
pxl8 said:
Sounds like the shot was under exposed due to a bright background (sky possibly?). Without seeing the shot it's a little hard to offer much advice, even more so withou knowing what s/w you're using. In general terms you need to boost the shadow areas using curves or fill light/flash if your s/w has the option. There are some other methods but we need to know some more info first...
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Im having the same problem can you say what s/w means please...Ray:)
 
s/w = Software. Do you have photoshop or maybe just the software that came with the camera?
 
I Keep getting pics like this i didnt have this problem with the 400D
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The camera has exposed for the sky, in situations like this you need to use exposure compensation to brighten the result.

In simple terms the camera assumes every image should be a certain shade of grey and evaluates the scene, measures the brightness and then adjusts to make it the right shade of grey. In a scene like this the sky has dominated and the camera has tried to make it grey and the foreground has become too dark. To correct you need to recognise these kind of situations and add some + exposure compensation.

There's a book called Understand Exposure that often gets mentioned on here as a good reference for learning about this stuff, or a search in the forums and/or google will probably turn up some tutorials and the like.
 
pxl8 said:
The camera has exposed for the sky, in situations like this you need to use exposure compensation to brighten the result.

In simple terms the camera assumes every image should be a certain shade of grey and evaluates the scene, measures the brightness and then adjusts to make it the right shade of grey. In a scene like this the sky has dominated and the camera has tried to make it grey and the foreground has become too dark. To correct you need to recognise these kind of situations and add some + exposure compensation.

There's a book called Understand Exposure that often gets mentioned on here as a good reference for learning about this stuff, or a search in the forums and/or google will probably turn up some tutorials and the like.
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Why didnt i have the same problem with my 400D :)
 
There are 3 different metering modes on the 400D

Centre-weighted average metering
Partial Metering
Evaluative Metering

What mode did you use?
 
raythefab said:
Why didnt i have the same problem with my 400D :)
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Did you take exactly the same shot under the same conditions and get a different result?

The result shown is about what I'd expect from most cameras shooting in "auto". If you want to solve problems like this then it's time to start shooting in Av, Tv or ideally manual mode and spend some time making mistakes and learning from them.
 
pxl8 said:
Did you take exactly the same shot under the same conditions and get a different result?

The result shown is about what I'd expect from most cameras shooting in "auto". If you want to solve problems like this then it's time to start shooting in Av, Tv or ideally manual mode and spend some time making mistakes and learning from them.
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I shot in P mode, but i think ive sort of cracked it now ive been playing around with AE Lock and the photos im getting now are much better thank you all for the advice...Ray:thumbs:
 
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