Red lights during a long exposure
Question:
When I take pictures at night (usually an exposure of >1 second) the red gets washed out and in extreme cases changes color and looks horrible. I've noticed that it doesn't matter what white balance I have or if I under/over expose the picture.
- Has anyone else noticed this?
- Is this a Nikon D80 issue only?
- Is there a technical term for this?
- Is there something I am doing wrong?
- Is this correctable (besides Photoshop)?
The original picture:
posted by Jeff @ 1:30 PM
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1 Comments:
This should only occur when photographing lights. It is just the overloading of the color due to overexposure, since it is a long exposure the camera is exposing for the overall scene, not the source of light. There for the center of the lights start to dropoff.
Not that I approve of hardly anything the man says, here is a bit on the phenomenon from Ken Rockwell. http://www.kenrockwell.com/fuji/s5/dynamic-range.htm
Scroll towards the bottom of the page, Look for SHOULDERS AND GRADUAL OVERLOADING in the page, it should explain a bit more clearly.
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