Underexposure in digital photography — Photography podcast #24

August 3, 2007 By 6 Comments

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast talks about DELIBERATE under­ex­po­sure in dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy. Many new dig­i­tal cam­eras have a ten­dency to blow out the high­lights when the scene is too bright. Through judi­cious use of delib­er­ate under­ex­po­sure you can get back some of those blown out highlights.

The dig­i­tal pho­tographs below were taken at the Grand Canyon in Ari­zona. You can see that even though the 2 stop under­ex­posed image is way too dark when uncor­rected, I was able to pull out quite a nice pho­to­graph with excel­lent high­light detail. You can click the pho­tos to enlarge them.

You can down­load this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast directly by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.


Meter read­ing — uncorrected
1 stop under­ex­posed — uncorrected

2 stops under­ex­posed — uncorrected		 Final photo from the 2 stop under­ex­posed image — color cor­rected with local dodg­ing and burning

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6 comments on “Underexposure in digital photography — Photography podcast #24”

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  2. KellyM on said:

    Thank you Marko; I appre­ci­ate you check­ing out my pho­tos :)

    Kelly

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  3. admin on said:

    Thanks for the com­ments Kel­lyM! Just took a look at your link and you have some realy nice ani­mal shots!

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  4. KellyM on said:

    Hi Marko;

    Just recently found your site and have been very impressed. I have been work­ing my way through the dif­fer­ent pod­casts (which is an awe­some idea). Also like the idea that this is Cana­dian basic site.

    I have been delib­er­ately under­ex­po­sur­ing many of my pho­tos, partly because I love the edit­ing aspect of dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy. But also because I find that my high­lights are always blown out and i thought this was just me. So its nice to know its not me :)

    I look for­ward to the next pod­cast and learn­ing from this site.

    Thank you so much
    Kel­lyM
    Cal­gary AB CA

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  5. admin on said:

    Hey Thanks Andre — I just love shar­ing knowl­edge!
    BTW — just took a look at your Flickr pho­tos — really nice nature shots!
    Best!
    Marko

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  6. Andre on said:

    very nice work you are doing! i have down­loaded all the pod­casts, really like’em!

    a big thank you from brazil!

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