Blown out.......... - DPChallenge Forums

12/30/2005 01:47:39 AM · #1

pictures where a spotlight is shining in. How do I correct for this? I can't move the light. Some sort of filter maybe? I need to do it at night.

crayon

12/30/2005 01:51:51 AM · #2

Lense hood?
Or do you mean the spotlight must be included in the shot? or entirely unavoidable?

12/30/2005 01:52:28 AM · #3

A team of hummingbrids trained to hover on command, carrying a large sheet of scrim material to soften the light?

R.

12/30/2005 01:54:07 AM · #4

It's shining on the subject. entirely unavoidable. I can't touch it move it cover it nothing

Message edited by author 2005-12-30 01:54:57.

crayon

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

12/30/2005 01:55:17 AM · #5

can you move yourself? those lights do have a certain angle where they are brightest - and not so bright?

I wonder if a ND filter would help.

Message edited by author 2005-12-30 01:55:51.

hsteg

Fujifilm X-T20

12/30/2005 01:57:56 AM · #6

i get that problem ALL THE TIME shooting skate with 2 flashes and a fisheye... im interested in this thread too...

12/30/2005 02:03:28 AM · #7

You saving it's not gonna happen Robert ? lol C'mon you have a solution to most every troublesome situation.

12/30/2005 02:07:30 AM · #8

Originally posted by crayon:

can you move yourself? those lights do have a certain angle where they are brightest - and not so bright?

I wonder if a ND filter would help.

naa, the lights are just to close to the subject. and that particular area of the subject is mostly white. It looks great standing there looking at it but you just know them lights are gonna be a problem. I took several shots and the lights are a problem.

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

12/30/2005 02:14:53 AM · #9

Originally posted by dsmeth:

You saving it's not gonna happen Robert ? lol C'mon you have a solution to most every troublesome situation.

Be easier to advise if I could see a sample shot showing the problem. I'm having a hard time visualizing exactly what you're talking about... So many possibilities...

When we did night shots of architecture with troublesome fixed lights not-part-of-the-subject, for example, we would cut a tree branch and fix it on a lightstand as an overhanging, foreground element...

Robt.

faidoi

Pentax K10D

12/30/2005 02:15:08 AM · #10

Example?

12/30/2005 02:18:18 AM · #11

I'd love to post an example but I intended on using for the Mother challenge. If I have to I guess I'll shoot it during the daytime. I think it's more dramatic lit up though at night.

Message edited by author 2005-12-30 02:19:29.

12/30/2005 02:23:40 AM · #12

If your problem is that you have an artifically-lit, nightime scene with a problem area, you can always try shooting RAW with exposures for the darker areas and the brighter areas and then combine them in Photoshop. This is legal under the rules. If you have CS2, they even have a HDR mode to faclititate this, though I don't have personal experience of it.

Robt.

12/30/2005 02:27:43 AM · #13

I thought about that to Robert. My limited abilities with Photoshop would probably ruin it. Might be a good learning experience though.
I wonder if I could talk my wife into crawling up and difusing the light with something? Might get arrested too.

PS I sent you a PM Robert

Message edited by author 2005-12-30 02:28:55.