Picture from ditital camera to dark

19 years ago

I went to see George Jones's concert but the pictures I took on my ditigal camera are to dark.I don't know to much about camera's but am hoping to find a way to lighten them up so I can at least see George somewhat.Thanks for any answer.

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owbist
19 years ago
I'll bet you left the flash on when taking that photo. That is not meant to be taken as a rude comment either, it is just what people do. Go to any function and watch the flashes going off all over the theatre. Camera flashes are only good for a few feet really and most digital cameras seem to be built so the flash is on by default.

Next time support you elbows off the seat back in front of you and take them without the flash. Note, this causes the shutter to stay open longer so the fear now is blurring. The cure for that is to take multiple shots, with digital cameras there is no processing charge any more. If you take 50 photos and delete 45 who really cares? Especially if the few you keep are good photos.

If you care to email it to earoles at canada dot com I will try to lighten it for you. Change the 'at' to @ and the dot to . Don't reduce the size before sending, the bigger the file size the better. Let me know here if you do that as I do not visit that address every day.
msm84
19 years ago
Sounds like you took your photos with a regular "point and shoot" camera. They are definately not the right camera to use, but people don't realize that. DSRL cameras are the solution, but only if you have and use a "fast" lens. P&S cameras just don't have lens that can open up enough to allow enough light and therefore you end up with dark photos. Using a flash in that large an area wil not help either unless you are right on the front row. Not all is lost. You can try my suggestion below.

Once a photo is under exposed its difficult to bring out detail without causing an extreme blur to it, but if you have Photo Shop Elements it can be done by going to "enhance" and then "levels". Move the slider to the left until the photo lightens. Then go to "color correction" and hit that. Finish up by going to "filters", "sharpen" and use "unsharp mask". You may or may not be able to save a few of the photos that way.
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minnie_tx
19 years ago
I lighten mine using XnView I think you can google a freebie
mes444
19 years ago
If you have Picasa 2 installed on your comp: Import the pics into Picasa (they get there automatically whenever you load pics onto your computer), open the picture (double click on it), on the left side of the open photo a basic edit list will show up, lighten is one of the choices, there are also other tools there to enhance your pics.

Picasa is a free downloand from google. I use the editor often and the results are very good.

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