how to stop this "weird" lighting affect ?

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had this issue quite a few times and not sure what it is to even start researching or asking how to fix it when setting up a shot?

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Apart from the bird poo on the lens, it's flare, horrendous flare, of the kind usually associated with a poor quality UV-protection filter, and/or greasy finger marks, with no lens hood or any attempt to shade the lens, plus over-exposure.

Pretty much a full house of don'ts when shooting directly into bright sun with the subject in shade ;) Sort out the above and add a dash of fill-in flash and it will be transformed :thumbs:
 
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HoppyUK said:
Apart from the bird poo on the lens, it's flare, horrendous flare, of the kind usually associated with a poor quality UV-protection filter, and/or greasy finger marks, with no lens hood or any attempt to shade the lens, plus over-exposure.

Pretty much a full house of don'ts when shooting directly into bright sun with the subject in shade ;) Sort out the above and add a dash of fill-in flash and it will be transformed :thumbs:
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that bird poo was down to a massive seagull! :lol:dont have a UV-protection filter or any finger prints on lens so assume i should have made the exposure less when taking the photo with the settings maybe going into the minus figure on the exposure compensation ? and then use the fill in flash to ?
 
to confirm is the flare the rainbow affect + the really bright light making everything looking washed out ?
 
Adam, what were you trying to do here?

I am confused about your mention of using fill flash.


Heather
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Adam, what were you trying to do here?

I am confused about your mention of using fill flash.

Heather
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The above photo was taken using auto with no flash but everything seems too bright and washed out.

So I know how to avoid this in future need to know how to put fill flash on d40 with the flash options mentioned above
 
topcat07 said:
The above photo was taken using auto with no flash but everything seems too bright and washed out.

So I know how to avoid this in future need to know how to put fill flash on d40 with the flash options mentioned above
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Fill flash will not solve this.

You need to learn about your camera (download a user manual) and you need to learn about exposure, and then you need to take pictures with different settings to see what effect changing settings has.

If you shoot into the sun using auto your camera gets confused as to which bit to expose for.

edit. Was that really bird poo on the lens? :eek:


Heather
 
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Tigger.ufo said:
Fill flash will not solve this.
You need to learn about your camera (download a user manual) and you need to learn about exposure, and then you need to take pictures with different settings to see what effect changing settings has.

If you shoot into the sun using auto your camera gets confused as to which bit to expose for.

edit. Was that really bird poo on the lens? :eek:


Heather
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No, not by itself. But once the flare has been controlled and the exposure adjusted, that still leaves a heavily back-lit subject with the face in shade - almost a silhouette. That's when the flash is needed to bring the main subject exposure up to balance with the background.
 
HoppyUK said:
No, not by itself. But once the flare has been controlled and the exposure adjusted, that still leaves a heavily back-lit subject with the face in shade - almost a silhouette. That's when the flash is needed to bring the main subject exposure up to balance with the background.
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Is there a person there?
 
just to double check i have understood correctly use exposure for the back ground and then flash to make sure the subject does not end up silhouette?
 
topcat07 said:
just to double check i have understood correctly use exposure for the back ground and then flash to make sure the subject does not end up silhouette?
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Not quite.

The main problem is flare and that has to be controlled first. If the sun is actually in shot, then there's not much you can do about it, assuming everything is clean and there's no filter in front. Some lenses are better than others but none is perfect, or anything like it in a situation like that. A lens hood or other method of shading the lens acts exactly like shading your eyes, or using the sun visor when driving.

While it's over-exposed now, with the flare controlled that might sort itself out, but the subject's face will still be in dark shade so that's what the flash will fix.
 
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