Sunday, June 1, 2014

Image Enhancement Question

I mentioned a couple of days ago that I accidentally hit one of the magic dials on the Pentax near the end of the trip, and some really cool pictures were taken as ISO 1600 -- which in bright sunlight, with some very bright objects in the image, produced tragedies like this:


No, we were not at the Idaho Nuclear Laboratory.  I played a bit with adjusting brightness and contrast in IrfanView, then played with Curves in GIMP 2.8, with no luck.  Suggestions?

3 comments:

  1. Go back to Yellowstone.

    Details not recorded cannot be enhanced.

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  2. Sadly, Mariner is correct. Details that are "blown out", to use photographer slang, can't be fixed although a talented Photo Shop user could fake them. The photo you posted previously is fixable to some degree but the this one is pretty much kaput.

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  3. Yeah, you can't fix something blown out to pure white (or down to pure black or the limits of the sensor) - there's no data to recover.

    On the other hand, I think that image actually looks pretty neat...

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