take picture in sunny day. photo becomes washed out. what does that mean? is there any example i can see?
2007-09-24 02:39:24 · 4 answers · asked by loser 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
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i didn't take these photos, but they are taken in sunny day. i guess they are washed out somehow
2007-09-24 03:43:52 · update #1
I wouldn't have considered either of these images as particularly washed out. If there was a need to see additional detail in the white areas, I might have exposed a little better for that.
If the sky was a much lighter shade of blue, nearing white, THAT might have been washed out, but, it was not. The blue looks quite natural. If the driveway where too white, considering the material, or, if the details of the bricks, roof, or lawn were lost, the images could have been said to be washed out. But, in these cases, they were not.
Wash out can be caused by over exposure of the film, strong back lighting, (in which the subject is properly exposed, but the background is blow nout) glare, either through the lense, or, from reflections, or from any number of other causes. The most commone example is in simple overexposure, in which EVERYTHING is too light, and detail and contrast is lost.
2007-09-24 08:38:54 · answer #1 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you drive near dusk or just after dawn and the sun is right in your eyes and so bright that is looks as if there is a bright fog, that is washed out. Technically speaking I would call a photo washed out if the blacks are some shade of dark grey and the whites are so bright they seem to glow or emit light. Now that is an extreme washed out photo, and there are degrees to this. It is a consequence of having the photo over exposed.
2007-09-24 06:29:40 · answer #2 · answered by luke7785 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Washed out - also referred to as blown out or blown highlights.
There are parts of the image that are overexposed and appear to be too bright. If this happens, then the data for that part of the image is gone.
There could be several reasons for this. Depending on the metering, you could be metering off the wrong subject.
It is possible that the dynamic range of the image(difference between the lightest part and the darkest part is too much for the imaging sensor to capture in one shot). The flash could have fired in TTL mode instead of BL-TTL(balanced fill flash).
If you have specific examples or tell us the camera you have, we might be able to help you out in a more specific manner.
2007-09-24 03:12:09 · answer #3 · answered by gryphon1911 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The highlights - the brightest areas - are being over-exposed. Obviously you have some samples to look at or you wouldn't have posted this question.
Its difficult to offer a solution since we don't know what camera you have. Perhaps you have the settings wrong?
Maybe you need to read and study your camera's Owner's Manual again.
2007-09-24 03:05:29 · answer #4 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋