Why do my pictures turn out all bright looking? Can Someone Help?

i used a shitty *** kodak brand dx6490 easy share...thank god its not mine

oh well if you can see the pics i thought it was a nice day out at the marina.....







here are some more i took after the advice people gave me about picture taking.........






-chris


Modified by Beach Accord at 6:19 PM 11/3/2004

 

Looking good.

 

thanks crono....

any camera people can help me out?

 

car doesnt look bad at all!! im not a photo genious, but it may have had something to do with shutter speed. (im in the process of learning how to take a picture myself)

 

white balance, something that most people never learn on the camera. if you notice your camera on auto settings fluctuate depending on what you're pointing at. you wanna try and point towards a grey, neutral color to help balance light and dark.

ooor shoot at evening or early morning when there aren't such harsh contrasts

 

you shot at the worst time of the day, probably noonish huh?

best time to shoot is 5-7ish, when the sun is going down, and the sun isnt so harsh and bright

but yeah, you can adjust your white balance according to how bright it is outside and what not

 

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best time to shoot is 5-7ish, when the sun is going down, and the sun isnt so harsh and bright

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well prolly ealier than that now...Daylight savings time. I noticed that in some of the pics you were standing like right in the shadow of the car and facing the sun. doing that will take a picture of the sun not the object. I suggest using the sun as a light source from behind and your pics will come out a lot better.

 

Your pictures are bright because it's over exposed. Having a filter on the lens would help more than adjusting white balance in this case. Although it is highly discouraged, you may shoot in broad daylight providing you have the proper equipment. A circular polarizing filter or a UV/Haze filter could help. If all else fails, you can stick a large sunglass over the lens. If you can control shutter speed at all, I would select the fastest shutter speed and depending on how your camera meters the light, I would step down a couple f-stops.

 

thanks guys, i really appresh....

 

i added more pics after everyones advice...i still suck at teh pic taking

 

i thought it was an 05 RL at first

 

it's fine to shoot during the day.. but when you do shoot.. stay out of the shadow.. you want to shoot on the side facing the sun.. that way you get as much light on to the object you're shooting.. if you shoot on the side away from the sun.. all you will get is a lot of exposure in the lighted areas, but you have a lot of darkness in the shadows.. (whitebalance??)

 

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White balance can be used to compensate for color while shooting in the shade. It can help with the shadows. Depending on which setting he has it for, the camera will either shoot and adjust for the shadow or shoot and adjust for the bright background. In either case, it still would not make that much of an improvement if any at all.

 

You chose a bad time of the day to take that picture. The sun is giving it too much glare. Secondly it's a black car. It's a tricky color to bring out on camera trust me. I use a Kodak too. Next time try turning off the flash and lowering the exposure and it should come out differently.

 

pretty nice