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In Lightroom 3, what is the difference between exposure and brightness?
What's the difference between adjusting a photo's exposure versus its brightness?
I created a virtual copy of a photo. The original's exposure was increased 1 stop. The other got an increase in ...
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How to photograph a snowy landscape?
I am about visit Nepal for 8 weeks, planning to trek the Annapurna circuit, Everest Base Camp and Imja Tse. Most of the landscape is extremely bright and snowy.
Credit: Gianni Scopinaro
How do I ...
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Fixing the brightness level in a panoramic photo
I've created a panormamic photograph from 4 separate shots using AutoStitch. The panorama came out fine, except that the left side of the image is brighter than the right side:
What's the best way ...
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What is the major factor that makes colors in photos very vivid?
Once you have a good enough camera, what are the other major factors that makes some of the photo very vivid?
For example, looking at the following picture, the colors are vivid. If I take the same ...
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How does adjusting the brightness on my LCD screen affect the photo?
On my DSLR, there is a setting to adjust the LCD screen's brightness level. If I were to turn this setting up (make the LCD brighter), does this affect the quality of the picture? I would assume that ...
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How can I use Photoshop to blend 2 photos together based on brightness?
Basically, I have 2 exposures of the same seen: 1 dark, 1 normal.
I'd like all to replace all parts of the normal photo that are above a certain brightness with the same parts from the darker.
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How large an exposure difference before it's noticable?
I'm being forced to work with a shutter that jitters (e.g., a 1/60 shutter could be anywhere between 1/59 and 1/61). I can't change the hardware, so please don't suggest that. I would if I could.
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How do I equalize the background brighness level for multiple photos?
Imagine that there are 50-60 photos from a photosession. Their background color is white, and nearly every photo's background tone and brightness differs from each other. I want to equalize and get ...
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What brush tool in “PhotoImpact 8” would help me change brightness of some areas of the image?
I wonder if there is any such tool in "PhotoImpact 8" that would be somewhat similar to a brush that, if I move it over a certain area of my image (picture), would change that area's brightness.
If ...
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Why are photos on my Nikon D3200 brighter on the LCD screen than on my computer?
When I snap a picture on my camera, in RAW+JPEG FINE mode, the camera shows me a bright photo, but when I watch it on my computer it becomes darker (less bright than on camera).
It's not a software ...
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How can I get nice, vivid colors in food photography without blown-out brightness from the flash?
Whenever I click pictures of people and food using flash, the whole picture becomes bright. When I click without flash, the camera takes in the light from the surroundings and gives me a monotonous ...
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Why does the exposure vary in these Nikon flash photos?
The following 4 photos were all taken with a Nikon D300 at 1/250s, f/5.3, ISO-400, in shutter priority mode, with the on-camera pop-up flash. The only difference between them is the exposure bias, ...
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Over-exposured shots on a sunny day with Auto Settings?
I am actually very worried now and I urgently need your help!!
I have had a Nikon D90 for 2 and a half years now and I have been very pleased with my purchase. Due to many many jobs and chores lately ...
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What does it mean to brighten an image?
Courtesy of my optometrist, I now have images of my retinas. However, the images are a bit dark. I have RGB values for each pixel. In this setting, is brightening the image equivalent to increasing ...
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How to take a bulb mode shot of a road in day light? [duplicate]
I need to take the photo of the trailing vehicles on road at day time. I tried a shot in bulb mode at 100 ISO and f/22 of a road in daytime. But that photo is too bight(link below). How can i get the ...
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What are proper settings to capture sun rise time-lapse?
I am a newbie to SLR world. The infinite settings are now a curse than a boon to me.
I would like to shoot sun rise in time lapse mode. The problem is, the photographs taken before sun rise are clear, ...
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Why are colors brighter and more red on Sony HX100v?
I have purchased a Sony HX100v. Can any one give me a review about its photography results? Till I am not more explore it. One thing I noticed about it was the color. Colors are brighter than actual ...
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Does an aperture value exist, where a lens creates a brighter image than the real view?
So (without limitations of the viewfinder for example) looking through the viewfinder
creates a brighter image than normal view would be.
The lens would then work like a funnel(collects light from ...
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What causes outdoor photos to turn out bright white when taken with a digital camera?
I set my Canon Powershot A460 to automatic mode and took photographs outdoors. When I see the to-be-photographed area on the LCD, it appears normal; but when I take a picture, the photo turns out ...
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Calibrating D7000 LCD brightness
There has been an issue I have been having some time now with my D7000. I shoot images with it, with any lens. When I review it in the camera's LCD, it's just right. However, when I view it in my mac ...
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How to achieve even brightness in landscape photography? [duplicate]
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How can I get the right exposure when parts of the scene are in the shade and others are in the sun?
How to cope with high contrast?
Today I went for a walk with my ...
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how to neutralise exposure in Manual mode [duplicate]
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How do I know I have the correct exposure when shooting in manual mode?
I have a canon 550d, initially the settings were fine in Manual mode, but know I see following ...
