Overexposed

[daveleo]

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This was a "happy accident". 🙂
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[nikon_sam]

I was teaching a friend about exposure settings...
Normally, I would have deleted this photo but I liked how it turned out...

 

[Godfrey]

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This was a "happy accident". 🙂
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Excellent.

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[daveleo]

Yeh, I delete all the "badly exposed" stuff too, but am paying more attention to them now. I could say (with a smirk) "Blown highlights is a bourgeois concept" 😛
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And thanks for the compliment, Godfrey.
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[Godfrey]

Sometimes overexposure does just the right thing. I intentionally overexposed on this shot to simplify it:

Leica M-D + Summilux 35 v2
ISO 1000 @ f/2.8 @ 1/45​

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[Henry]

Can an image be overexposed even though part of it is wildly underexposed?

I tend to think so:

(Taipei 2016)

 

[krötenblender]

Brilliant thread idea. I'm waiting for a roll to come back from lab, that I changed mid-roll and forgot to set M6 ISO dial. Now a ISO400 is exposed from frame 14 to end with ISO200 setting. Might have some interesting overexposed frames...

 

[dee]

i always say that there is no such thing as correct exposure .. it's not that I a getting it wrong ...
dee

 

[IdealCamera]

LandsEnd_050915_039.jpg by -IdealCamera-

 

[daveleo]

 

[Jack Conrad]

Totally blown.
Untitled by jackcb, on Flickr

 

[wacky941]

Jet engines. Taken with a fisheye lens. I was wanting to get a picture of the back of the plane, it didn't quite work out that way, you cannot even see the vertical stab, the rudder, the elevators, the wings, the main landing gear or even the ground for that matter. Purely accidental but, it has a weird curious feel to it.



This will give you an idea of what it was supposed to look like. This was taken moments before with the same camera and a wide angle lens.

 

[Moto-Uno]

^There's nothing overexposed here , it's the backgrounds that are all wrong ! Peter

 

[Henry]

I'm really enjoying this thread, it reminds me of the "focus is bourgeois" threads. Simple but really interesting, and with the chance to change how i think of images

 

[Tin]

Ten characters.

 

[daveleo]

I'm really enjoying this thread, it reminds me of the "focus is bourgeois" threads. Simple but really interesting, and with the chance to change how i think of images

I agree here. My first picture (post #1) opened my eyes to the impact of large overexposed areas.
Normally, people would spit venom about "blown highlights" but that's really *not* the right interpretation in some cases (like these).

 

[Pioneer]

Isolated by Light

Isolated by Light

- Juniper

 

[daveleo]