Questions tagged [brightness]
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What does Canon's Brightness Histogram actually show?
Canon cameras can show a histogram of the images (either in live view or in the preview).
There are two modes: an RGB histogram and a "brightness" histogram.
While the RGB histograms can ...
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How do you decide the screen brightness of your computer when editing a photo?
I have always struggled in understanding how much display brightness is OK for editing a photo on a computer, mainly laptop.
So, I would like to know your valuable suggestions as to how much screen ...
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How to rescue ''dark photos'' of experimental work?
I have some photos which I took during some experimental work which ended up being so dark that the details can't really be seen (these are of spheres hitting a body of liquid and splashing).
It will ...
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Retouch photo with brightness or exposure?
Two controls in software editors are Brightness and Exposure. Both seem to do the same thing: increase the lighting in the image if they're too dark.
Why would a outdoor photographer use either or ...
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How to tell if an edited photo has too much exposure?
Small sensor cameras produce photos that are dark. To fix this many increase exposure in their software editor. However, this fix can be quickly abused to the point of over-exposure, especially if the ...
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How could I have capture better the lighting for this photo
I took an inhouse photo in which the sun was entering through the window.
I'm guessing that due to the contrast, the flowers are really bright but the background is more dark than what it was ...
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Is deep depth of field AND bright exposure possible?
I know that a larger aperture corresponds to a brighter exposure and shallower depth of field for a given focal length.
Is it optically possible for a custom-built camera to form an image with both a ...
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Why did my night pictures turned out so foggy, light or too bright?
I received my developed pictures and many of them are foggy. It seems that some shot with similar light is foggier than the others. Can it be that something went wrong in the development process, is ...
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Canon DPP - how to adjust brightness to specified maximum level on some spot automatically
How to adjust brightness to specified maximum level on some spot automatically - for example - on some spot I want to make brightness not exceeding RGB (250,250,250). I can adjust brightness manually ...
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Live view on my Nikon D7000 is too dark
So I own a Nikon D7000 and when I use live view (to manual focus for example), its kind of hard to see through live view during the day, and especially on the sun because LCD is not bright enough. ...
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Any solutions to a black screen on a nikon d3500
My husband bought me a nikon d3500 last year. To summarize the lcd screen went black a couple months later. While troubleshooting online I was able to shine a light on it and could see the screen it ...
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Is there a way to equalize all the colors' brightness in Photoshop?
I want to know if there's a way to equalize the brightness of all the colors of an image. Like, I have a color image, I want to make its all colors' brightnesses the same value.
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Different image viewer shows different color (brightness?) of jpg image
I'm not sure if I should ask this question here or not. I've some images, that have a problem, as the screenshot below shows:
The softwares are as following (left to right, top to bottom):
[qimgv] [...
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What to look out for when shooting in direct sunlight, causing hard shadows and shiny patches on water?
I am aware that this question might be labelled as off-topic, but the issue bothers for some days now, and I figured my best bet to get an answer is here on this site.
Whenever I look at pictures I ...
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Brightest Portable Speedlight
I am working on a custom build, where I will be using 2 speedlights attached to each side of the camera
to take closeup shots (1-2m away from the subject). For the photos, I will be using a 28mm fixed ...
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How can the EVF be brighter than the lens?
When I use my mirrorless camera, an Olympus OM-D EM1 Mark II, in a dark room, the EVF shows the room as though it is fully lit, but the lens does not have the same brightness.
It's as though the EVF ...
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Fear of underexposure despite proper exposure in editing program?
I'm constantly afraid that my images are underexposed for I'm playing a lot with light and shadow and like to shoot at night. Even though in my picture editing program the image seems well exposed ...
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"Black point" in lower end/mid range monitors
I bought a Iiyama ProLite XUB2792UHSU for my girlfriend who is a hobby photographer. The monitor had a good review as an all round device, but not necessarily as a graphics monitor. However we were ...
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Why are most of my photos way too dark/underexposed?
I've been taking pictures for years now, firstly with some old digital Nikons, then Canons, then I moved to mirrorless Fuji XT3 (I love it!).
Unfortunately most of my pictures have been way too dark, ...
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Why is a lens darker than other ones when applying the same settings?
I own a Nikon D500 DSLR, with a Nikkor 16-80 mm 1:2,8-4E ED VR lens.
I noticed that this lens, when applying exactly the same settings (same ISO, same aperture, for instance F8.0, same Shutter speed, ...
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Tactics for judging if a printed image will be bright enough?
I'm struggling a bit with how to judge if a photo will be bright enough when printed, while I'm working on it on my monitor. "Bright enough" of course changes with the ambient or targeted lighting ...
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What could be the reason for suddenly changing brightness in raw image?
A series of night shots show this abrupt change of brightness:
It starts at approximately 60% horizontal and extends to the right corner.
I didn't notice this effect before, the temperature was ...
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How to calculate difference in exposure between two given frames?
This question regards exposure. I have a project I am working on where I need to be able to calculate the exact number of stops between two given exposures, with the end goal being to match the ...
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Canon EOS 4000D with Apeman SL 450C Speed Light - Photographs Dark
I have just bought a new Canon EOS 4000D with an Apeman SL 450C speed light. When I take a photograph with the speed light switched off the photographs are a decent brightness. When I switch the speed ...
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Indoor office pictures Canon 100D
I took a number of pictures inside my office (without flash and with tripod) and depending on my position in respect to the large windows, picture luminosity varies a lot.
Before publishing them, ...
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Exposure preferences
Whenever I shoot with my Nikon D5300 in manual mode I set settings so that photos have bit more pop to them - brighter than what the camera exposure meter says the correct exposure is.
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Programmatically assessing image quality [closed]
I am using a third party service which processes images and returns some metadata:
The data (and ranges) looks like this
sharpness 0-1
brightness 0-1
contrast: 0-1
dominant color: hex
array of '...
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Why do my stock photos always come out gray?
Trying to take stock photos on a white background and all the photos look gray rather than the crisp white like they are in person, and even with trying different settings they are still coming out ...
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Why do stars appear as circles, not points?
Excluding the Sun, stars are so far away that their angular diameter is effectively zero. However, when you take pictures of them, brighter stars appear as circles, not points. Why?
In theory, any ...
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Can a larger format lens provide more light to a crop sensor for a given f-stop?
Having recently spent some time fighting for light with a high-speed camera having a CS mount and a sensor area under .1 inches2, I was wondering if the f rules apply to cropped sensors?
For example: ...
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Consistent Backgrounds using Darktable
I regularly take photos on a fixed background under natural light.
I use a grey-card for white balance which works well enough. I take a test shot with the card, white balance it and save that as a ...
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Is it normal for shutter speed to vary between shots on low exposure time?
I was doing a timelapse recording of sunrise with my Canon 1100D. I set manual mode of exposure (M on the disk), exposure time to 1/4000 s (smallest), aperture to f/3.5 (maximally open), ISO to 100 (...
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Difference between in-camera exposure control and brightness
I'm a photography newbie, and would like to know what is the basic difference between exposure control and brightness (e.g. under Picture Control on a Nikon), but specifically when changing it in-...
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Why do out of focus elements in a photograph increase in apparent brightness?
What is the physics that explains the phenomenon observed when out of focus areas increase in apparent brightness?
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How can I maintain brightness in a landscape without overexposing the sky?
I'm an amateur photographer learning to take good shots. I need some advise for shooting landscapes in bright daylight. Here's a picture that I've taken from my camera:
I took this picture from my ...
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Why are these film photos brighter than digital photos taken at the same time with the same settings?
I took two photos - first one with Canon 5D Mark III and the second one with analog Canon EOS 500N. I used the same lens (Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4) and settings (ISO/shutter/aperture) for both of them.
The ...
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What is "brightness value" in Lightroom?
Lightroom shows me a "brightness value" for each of my photos:
I notice that it's negative for night photography and positive for daytime photos, but I don't know how it's computed. Is it the average ...
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ANDCamera problem: brightness malfunctioning [duplicate]
I am a newbie photographer and had a question that has been plaguing me for some time now.
My NIKON D3100 camera's brightness meter (the lines that change on manual mode when one adjusts shutter ...
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Why do some pictures look darker online than on my computer?
I'm shooting raw and I'm on ubuntu. This happens mostly with pictures that have a lot of black or that are very dark. On my screen the picture looks fine (as intended) but when I upload it to 500px or ...
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How to normalize brightness of individual images (post-processing) for a stop motion movie?
When creating a stop motion movie we need take a lot of pictures to build the movie.
But after we took the pictures, we have a problem: the brightness and contrast varies between pictures.
What kind ...
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Why do my photos "glow"?
I have a Canon 60D and recently bought a Canon zoom lens EF 24-70mm 2,8L USM. Bright colours seem to "glow" or are blurry when I take photos. It does not seem to be blurred because of movement or ...
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How can I fix the overly-bright background in my landscape photo?
I am pretty much a complete newbie to post-processing, since I don't normally post-process my pictures: if I don't like a picture as it is, I consider it a bad picture and discard it. There is, ...
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Can HDR technique be used to take picture of a subject with bright background?
From what I read, when taking picture of a subject with a very bright background, we can set the metering to read the bright background (which will make faster shutter speed) and to avoid having dark ...
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Brighten a subject without Flash [duplicate]
I'm new to photography and often face problems with subject with a bright background.
For example: A worker on a 2nd floor building with bright sky as
background and picture captured from ground ...
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Canon 600D Images [duplicate]
I've been playing with my new 600D and one thing is really starting to annoy me. When I view an image on the canon's screen, the image is clear and bright. The same is true also if I'm controlling the ...
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Need brighter flash. Shooting with Polaroid 600SE.
I need advice on acquiring a brighter flash, or a flash with brightness that I can control.
I have been used to 35mm for years, shooting on 400 - 800ASA with apertures as large as 1.8. This has ...
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How is brightness measured?
I understand that for example light blue is brighter than dark blue. But I don't understand really what brigthness in essence is. Wikipedia states that "brightness is the perception elicited by the ...
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How do I take a photo like this (very bright)?
I've always wondered how these pictures are taken. They have a very "bright" feel to them. And it feels that they are "bathed" in golden sun light.
I understand that I have to take this during the ...
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why is a compact sensor brighter than a APS-C size sensor
So I may be missing something but I cannot think what it can be.
I have a Sony compact hx9v and an NEX-6.
the 16mm on the NEX is very similar to the compact at its widest, so I thought I would ...
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What are the effects of turning negative images to positives?
I was using my DSLR (D5200) to digitize some old negatives. Many articles stackoverflow helped with ideas. SO I have a backlit surface on which I place the negative & then take a closeup shot of ...
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