Biggest Boo Boo so far

aha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Easy when you know how ............ lol.

Thanks Sarah.
 
Paul Male said:
I didn't understand that 4/3 meant 4 divided by 3 :bang:
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you want to be careful you might get a sarcy [sp?] remark under your boardname with comments like that :lol:
 
basic arithmetic
4+3=7
4-3=1
4/3=1.33(33333333333333333)
4*3=12
 
I blime et al on the educashun cistern:)
 
Just to ad Julian, you can bring back an awful lot of detail in Photoshop Elements 8.

I wouldn't normally do this, but here is a versio I very quickly edited in PSE8.

I did the image overall, then selected the lady on the right and did another stint at settings in enhance>lighting>Shadows and highlights.

JDS_5553.jpg


Will remove once I know you have seen it..
 
Rough Edges said:
grab the pic. Right click>Properties>details That gives the exif..
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Yeah I had got the Exif data but interpreted 4/3 as 4/3rds and not 4 divided by 3. So I got myself confused as to how 4/3rds got translated into 1.3.
 
Wheels said:
I have just reset the settings on it so fingers crossed, I wonder if its anything to do with the settings Simon kindly showed me when we were taking photos on that lizard, I dont think I changed it back from the zoo.
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a tip i picked up off of here a while back was when you mess about with your settings always put them back before putting your camera away
i learnt this after leaving mine on mirror lock up and taking some shots a few days later i thought my camera was broken :cuckoo:
 
littlemonster said:
Fix it in post :D

Seriously, do you have a copy of photoshop? The lowlights (err is that the right term?) are dead in places but I've had a look on photoshop and parts are definitely not as bad as they 1st appear.


But we all have bad shoots, plenty of them usually :D
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No mate I dont have photoshop


littlemonster said:
Ok Julian as you've got the edit box ticked I've come up with a crop which may help things, you'll even notice that the trees in the background are green again! I replaced your watermark as I cropped it out a little.. and I have blown the sky a little in recovering the trees, but considering I'm new to photoshop I think it's a reasonable effort?

JDS_5553-crop.jpg



Ok in all seriousness I was playing around to see if the data was there to recover the detail from the black bits and it was, but I have nowhere near enough skill, so some bits ended up distinctly odd when I did it. So I played around with a little cropped bit instead. I did also straighten the horizon and put the top of the lake bit at the top 1/3 line.

I played with saturation, curves, level, black level, contrast, exposure presets and pretty much everything else about 30 times, alas such is my inexperience.
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Its brought that section up lovely though. I do have some PP experience but even these beat me.

Rough Edges said:
Just to ad Julian, you can bring back an awful lot of detail in Photoshop Elements 8.

I wouldn't normally do this, but here is a versio I very quickly edited in PSE8.

I did the image overall, then selected the lady on the right and did another stint at settings in enhance>lighting>Shadows and highlights.

JDS_5553.jpg


Will remove once I know you have seen it..
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How dare you thats no LADY thats my wife :lol:

I will just go back and go to the same places and fingers crossed for next time.
 
Paul Male said:
Yeah I had got the Exif data but interpreted 4/3 as 4/3rds and not 4 divided by 3. So I got myself confused as to how 4/3rds got translated into 1.3.
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Rough Edges said:
To be honest I am confused by that too... Wonders why or how that happens..
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Four thirds . . . one and one third . . . four divided by three . . . it's all the same thing.
Working with Excel all day I automatically thing of / as a divide sign, but you could read it equally correctly as four thirds.
Comes back to 1.333333 whichever way you look at it.

(I'll shut up now, before I start to look like a maths geek - and let Julian have his thread back)
 
LOL Julian!! It was just to show what you could do to save some of your images and time that you spent taking them..

Might be the next thing to get as I have saved a couple of images this way and also pushed to fake HDR... Somtimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but you get the idea.. You might as well keep a few from today Julian for a rainy day so to speak..

Not sure if PSE7 has Shadows>highlights control (anyone know?) but you can get it for less than £20.00 PSE 8 for around £47.00 on Amazon.co.uk

I hope this has helped.. If you want me to have a fiddle with a couple let me know.. I use Yousendit for large files but you need the email address etc...
 
SarahLee said:
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(I'll shut up now, before I start to look like a maths geek - and let Julian have his thread back)
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No no you have taught me something as well thanks
 
SarahLee said:
Four thirds . . . one and one third . . . four divided by three . . . it's all the same thing.
Working with Excel all day I automatically thing of / as a divide sign, but you could read it equally correctly as four thirds.
Comes back to 1.333333 whichever way you look at it.

(I'll shut up now, before I start to look like a maths geek - and let Julian have his thread back)
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thanks for the explanation, but what I don't understand is, why the info is displayed differently, surely the info comes from the camera and the image and not change with the software they are viewed on....
 
Rough Edges said:
LOL Julian!! It was just to show what you could do to save some of your images and time that you spent taking them..

Might be the next thing to get as I have saved a couple of images this way and also pushed to fake HDR... Somtimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but you get the idea.. You might as well keep a few from today Julian for a rainy day so to speak..

Not sure if PSE7 has Shadows>highlights control (anyone know?) but you can get it for less than £20.00 PSE 8 for around £47.00 on Amazon.co.uk

I hope this has helped.. If you want me to have a fiddle with a couple let me know.. I use Yousendit for large files but you need the email address etc...
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I will definately look into getting something like elements in the near future. Picasa can only do so much
 
SarahLee said:
Four thirds . . . one and one third . . . four divided by three . . . it's all the same thing.
Working with Excel all day I automatically thing of / as a divide sign, but you could read it equally correctly as four thirds.
Comes back to 1.333333 whichever way you look at it.

(I'll shut up now, before I start to look like a maths geek - and let Julian have his thread back)
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No, no. It's all blindingly obvious to me now :lol::lol:
 
Rough Edges said:
thanks for the explanation, but what I don't understand is, why the info is displayed differently, surely the info comes from the camera and the image and not change with the software they are viewed on....
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the info does come from the camera
it will be stored in the exif data as two short integers 4 and 3
some software chooses to show this as 4/3
some decides to do the arithmetic and display it as 1.33
trouble with software - it's soft - and go do anything it wants to!
 
Rough Edges said:
You are!

It is minus 1.3 and on spot metering.. Which is why this is 1/5000 sec. The exposure bias adjusts the shutter speed...

Wheels, stick on to matrix metering and correct the exposure bias and you will be fine. I shoot Aperture Priority and Jpeg and no problems
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Julian
as above the EV should be 0 to start with or maybe EV -0.3 for better colours
the "spot metering" probably picked up reflections from the water and under-exposed....choose matrix metering
f4 is too low so DOF is shallow - better to use f8/f11 maybe
this will reduce speed from 1/5000 which is FAST

just some comments on my camera - maybe different on yours .......:wave:
 
Yardbent said:
Julian
as above the EV should be 0 to start with or maybe EV -0.3 for better colours
the "spot metering" probably picked up reflections from the water and under-exposed....choose matrix metering
f4 is too low so DOF is shallow - better to use f8/f11 maybe
this will reduce speed from 1/5000 which is FAST

just some comments on my camera - maybe different on yours .......:wave:
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Cheers John notes made thank you.
 
Rough Edges said:
Thanks Mike, that now makes sense.

Julian make sure you keep any CDs or DVDs from magazines you read as they will have tutorials....
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I have 3 here I think, not really looked at them, I tend to read the mags 1st and then forget the discs
 
Wheels, if you want some magazines to read with CD tutorials, drop me a pm with your address. I get digital photographer on subscription and will happily send you some older issues. They come with CD tutorials as well.
 
You are not crap at all i use picasa it does me.
 
Arkady said:
:thinking:

WTF?

All that money we raised and we forgot to get Julian anything to edit with? :shrug:

We're crap, we are...
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It's sorted. I've offered him my old copy of CS3 as I have CS4 and CS5
 
Jullian,

Before shooting on a new day always check your ISO setting, your metering mode, picture quality (Raw JPEG etc) and your exposure compensation.... ALWAYS!!! There is nothing more annoying than realising that one of the above is wrong once you get them home and on the computer. I am sure I have camera gremlins in my bag that like to change everything about on me :). Dont be dishearted just go out and try again, the more you shot the more everything becomes second nature.
 
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