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submitted 1 week ago by uncommoncorvid@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/photography@lemmy.world

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saw @tanisnikana@lemmy.world's photo here yesterday and i'm still pretty new to the city so it's nice finding new places to visit. i happened to wake up early for whatever reason this morning and decided to check it out, and it really is a nice view. any other spots to check out would be appreciated!

i'm not a professional photographer by any means, but i do want to get better, so i'm trying to take my camera with me whenever i can. out of ~80 pictures, there were only a few that ended up somewhat decent lol

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[–] KevinFRK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you shoot RAW format photos? If so, I'd try looking at your luminance curve/tone histogram/whatever your software calls it. Any photo with a lot of sky and a lot of dark stuff tends to leave the dark stuff too dark - with a histogram tool, just applying to the whole photo, you should be able to brighten up the dark stuff, revealing more detail, without doing too much harm to the sky. Then your classic framing will be better rewarded.

Or take an entirely different approach and work out when the sun will be in the best position to light up the scene naturally.

Monopods (or indeed tripods, or even just bracing against walls) matched with slower speeds might also reveal more detail.

[–] uncommoncorvid@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

thanks for the advice! i usually shoot jpeg and don't mess with post processing, but i might have to try it out!

[–] KevinFRK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If your software does have the right luminance tool, a little effort can really improve photos with light/dark issues, but it does really need RAW format to really work well (it needs the extra info that RAW holds).