On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Collin Brendemuehl <[email protected]> wrote: >>Looking very good, Collin, especially #3. >> >>But if that's a white table your subjects are parked on, these are all >>quite underexposed. Have you a meter? > > That very subject is detailed in the book I mentioned earlier. > I don't need the white table to come out white, but the unit to be exposed > properly. Then I can magic-wand cut the table out. It works really well.
Believe me, as someone who has magic-wanded out more backgrounds that I care to admit... it works really well SOME of the time. Other times you a messing around with the magic wand sensitivity setting to keep it from grabbing portions of your object. Bruce is correct. Your images are seriously underexposed. The light table should be white. It's the same principle as shooting something on a snow bank. The meter will make the snowbank 18% grey and underexpose the subject. That's what you've got here. You'll save a lot of work in post if you expose correctly. Either get off automatic to manual or use exposure compensation. Also, if you have photoshop you may find that working with levels or curves (to define your "white") will save you a lot of time with the magic wand. Trust me, you don't want to rely on the magic wand. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
