Riddle me this
All of my pool pictures turn out awful. Its forced me out of auto mode because on my no-flash auto setting the pictures have grossly distorted color hues leaning heavily to the blue side and are all over the spectrum in exposure - either way under or overexposed.
An examples:
Too dark, too blue. Blah. It doesn’t help that we tend to swim after dinner when it is pretty much full shade back there, too dark for low ISO settings which mean that often my pictures are pretty grainy to boot.
Here’s the post-processed true-to-life version:
I can get it the way I want it post-processed, more or less. But I want it more true to life SOOC. I’ve played around with the exposure compensation, the shutter speed, aperture, the white balance, etc. The one thing I haven’t done is try to manually set the hue adjustment to compensate. That seems a little drastic though.
Any ideas? Opinions?
May 25, 2008
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Christine May 25
I don’t know if you are doing this or not but try shooting RAW. I was so intimidated by RAW but tried it for the first time. It was a overcast day and I wasn’t getting off really great shots. Good but not great. But because I was shooting RAW, in Adobe Bridge I was able to correct most everything about the photo.
I was intimidated but now I haven’t taken my camera off RAW mode. I love it!
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Nicki May 25
I don’t usually shoot in raw for space-saving alone!! But the post-processing’ isn’t really the issue. I can get it pretty close to accurate in either Picnik or if its really bad, Photoshop. The problem is that I want them more real to life SOOC and I can’t figure out what settings to use manually to make that happen. Any ideas?
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Stacy May 27
Good job at saving the picture. I don’t know if I can give you much advice. It sounds like you have done most of the usual things. Maybe try doing a custom white balance for the colors.
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Nicole May 28
I agree with Christine. When I had my big camera, I shot EVERYTHING RAW.
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