Articles from September 30th, 2008

On second thought

Written on September 30, 2008 Posted in Event Photography


I took this picture then realized that i was still on the settings from a previous shoot.
Sad… but I didn’t erase the dark pictures.

And when I got home I looked at those pictures and in Lightroom
I thought: “Why not give it a shot”
I raised the exposure +2.5 and added 29 fill light.

And on second thought things turned out just fine.
I’ve decided that I prefer erring on the side of too dark than too light.
Specially with the new cameras.

It made the backgound in this picture noisy, but it really works for this style. And I decided not to even run a noise reduction on the picture or do anythign besides up exposure…. Fun stuff!
And I suppose it’s hard to even see the noise when the picture is as small as it is on the blog.

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