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Underexposed and contrast issues

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:52 pm
by Y@
REALLY like this shot, but it does need some work to get it to look right. Need some help guys.

Reject #1 underexposed: http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... y=21548929
Reject #2 bad contrast: http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... 1232213154

Any help is appreciated.

Re: Underexposed and contrast issues

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:05 pm
by Mr. Tops
Well...if it's underexposed and has poor contrast, you brighten it and add more contrast.

In the manual brightness/contrast control, I raised the brightness by 10 and the contrast 25 and came up with this:
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Re: Underexposed and contrast issues

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:10 pm
by Y@
Thanks bud. I did brighten it and add some contrast, but I didn't add enough of either I guess. Still not the best at editing! :lol:

Re: Underexposed and contrast issues

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:16 pm
by Mr. Tops
Yeah just brighten it some and add a load of contrast to your original as my edited version of it is getting pretty noisy. :lol:

Re: Underexposed and contrast issues

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:21 pm
by J T
The exposure and contrast in Bob's fix looks good. W.yatt, in your second rejection, it appears you lightened it and didn't add any contrast because it looks really bland.

Re: Underexposed and contrast issues

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:58 pm
by Y@
Here we go: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 242&nseq=0

Played around with the curves tool on that. Never even thought to use it last night while editing. Oh well, I was running on 4 hours of sleep the previous night! :lol: Thanks for the help guys.

Re: Underexposed and contrast issues

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:36 pm
by J T
Now that POPS. Nice job.