Saving Photos With Wrong Shutter Speed for Flash

[valleye]

<p>Has anyone here done any work with saving photographs taken at the

wrong shutter speed with lights?</p>

<p>I have recently shot a wedding and I am about to lose 28 images

because I had the shutter set to 1/350 and the D60 syncs at 1/200. I

always check my settings every 20 or so images so I did manage to

catch this in a reasonable amount of time. Times were you could

blame the lab for one botched roll of film but this is entirely my

fault.</p>

<p>I have considered vignetting some of these and deleting the ones

that are marginal anyway. That is not the route I want to go

however. I would prefer to try to lighten up what I can and crop the

rest out.</p>

<p>Any comments?</p>

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[raymond_mckinley]

Emerson

 

You could use an adjustment layer set to screen mode and lift the curve in the dark area, then use the gradient tool and drag a black to white gradient across the adjustment layer's layer mask. This will prevent the brighter areas from being blown out. Attached is a quick correction to your image using this method.

 

 

Raymond

[tom_menegatos]

You were shooting digital and you didn't spot this earlier?!?!?!

 

There's really not much you can do other than crop or apply a vignette to the whole image to make it look intentional. Maybe vignette it in white and cover up the flash shadow. You can do some things by selecting just the shadow areas and try and bring it up with levels and layering tricks but it's just going to give you an ugly, grainy, contrasty bar on the side in this case since the shadows are so dark.

[ShunCheung]

Sorry I can't help you fix the problem, but I have a separate question. Doesn't the D60 automatically set your shutter speed to a maximum of 1/200 sec when it detects a flush on the camera? I am surprised that you managed to take flash pictures with a shutter speed that exceeds the flash sync speed.

[hal_bissinger]

Shun, I was thinking the same thing. Raymond, that doesn't look any better. <p>

I don't think there is anything you are going to do except apply a vignette or crop.

[NK Guy]

>Doesn't the D60 automatically set your shutter speed to a maximum of 1/200

sec when it detects a flush on the camera?

 

Only if you're using a dedicated flash unit such as a Canon Speedlite. If you're

using a studio flash or an autoflash or something with an optical slave or

whatever then the camera doesn't know you're using flash and so happily lets

you exceed X-sync.

[valleye]

Thanks for your tip Ray, I will give it a shot and proof a few on my 1280. Seems after editing that I really only ruined 6 frames. The rest are not keepers or dupes.

 

Thanks Tom. ;-)

 

I do not shoot with the display on to preserve battery power. I suppose that defeats one of the benefits of Digital. The other issue is that I am a Nikon Shooter. I use an FUJI S-2pro. That damn shutter speed dial is in the wrong place on the Canon! It should be in the front not the top. <GRIN>

 

Regardless, I have over 200 keepers so it will be no difficultly for me to build the album for the couple.

 

This is my Wife's cousin; photography was our wedding present, yes I am a pro, yes this was stoopid mistake. The post reception party was at the MOBs house. I took my notebook and did a slide show there. tears were flowing all over again.

[jsbc]

Emerson:

 

D60 is one of those cameras where you don't have to be obsessed about battery power.

 

I think it would big more sense (on my D30 at least) to set the camera so that it displays the photo for 2 sec upon capturing, with the histogram. You can also turn the screen off by pressing the shutter anytime.

 

It would be natural to check the screen if you are using flash to ensure there are not blown out highlights which is a big problem with digitals.

 

Johnson