{"id":625,"date":"2006-04-16T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/625"},"modified":"2013-12-07T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T12:20:28","slug":"dealing-with-underexposed-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/dealing-with-underexposed-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with underexposed images"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was taking photos of the local birdlife today. I got a nice shot of a starling with its wing spread, but due to the bright sky the bird itself was underexposed. The shot was in decent focus so I thought I&#39;d play around.<\/p>\n<p>This is the original (it&#39;s cropped down, but otherwise untouched)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/birds_160406023smoriginalcrop.jpg\" alt=\"birds_160406023smoriginalcrop\" width=\"452\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/birds_160406023smoriginalcrop.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/birds_160406023smoriginalcrop-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now for the processed version. Roughly what I did was: increase the mid-tones and high tones, and reduce the shadow. This gave more detail to the bird. I sharpened the image, and I also added a slight tint to the mid-tones so that it wasn&#39;t as washed out. I gave the contrast a couple of notches as well, before bringing up the gamma.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/birds_160406023sm.jpg\" alt=\"birds_160406023sm\" width=\"322\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/birds_160406023sm.jpg 322w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/birds_160406023sm-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much better, I reckon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[33,23],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-photoshop","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}