WetLeather Motorcycle Rider Information

I didn't actually mess with the color.  What I did was use the levels adjustment to darken the cat.  The graph indicated it was overexposed.  But since I don't really know what the cat looks like I got it wrong.

I might have mentioned this before but the camera meter can be fooled if there is too much contrast or difference between the light and dark areas of an image.  In this case, I believe the dark background told the meter to open up too much.  One thing I've taken to doing on almost all my shots now is to point my camera at that area of the photo I want perfectly exposed and then lock that exposure in.  Reposition or reframe the image and shoot.  If your camera doesn't have this feature you can still do it by pressing the shutter half way down, reframe if necessary and then shoot.  The downside to this technique is your focus is also locked in.  More expensive cameras allow you to lock focus or exposure, a very useful thing.

You'll see this overexposure problem a lot when people take scenic pictures that include land and sky.  Unless it is overcast with even light, invariably the sky will get overexposed if your camera is oriented too much toward the darker areas of the scene.  One technique is to lock in the correct exposure for the sky and let the land be darker and possibly fix it with photoshop.  To my eye a blown out sky is way worse than an underexposed bunch of trees etc.  YMMV.

I uploaded a Qimage enhanced (pixels added) of the original.  I did this because the original is necessarily small for net usage.  If you're camera shoots only jpgs and you want to make changes using photoshop, PSP etc., you should convert it to tiff format first.  Then when you make changes and save, you will not be degrading the image via the jpg algorithm. 

http://www.tkpowell.com/wetphoto/cat.htm

If you have PS or PSP and are so inclined, download these and play around with the levels adjustment etc. and see what happens.

 --Terry

Something decidedly weird is happening with Drupal's WSYIWYG editor and images. I can't explain it. I don't know HOW I fixed it, because the sequence I had to go through for 3 photos didn't make sense.

Michael, are you using Firefox? I am - and I'm beginning to suspect that may be part of the problem.

Or no, as I had no trouble posting THIS with the img tag embedded. But now Michael's post is "un-fixed" again! I swear it looked fine for a minute there. Sheesh. I hate computers.

 The problem appears to be with the site that's hosting those pictures you used Michael. Can you please tell me exactly how you got the URL for those? I assume they're on Picasa - what steps did you take, starting from the main "procameraman" page display, to drill down into the album pages and how did you extract the URL for the image file? Because Google doesn't appear to like them referred from inside a web page, but WILL display them if I type the URL directly into Firefox - and will then display them ONCE in the web page in another Firefox tab. But if I wait and refresh the page (this page), they go away again. Some kind of odd behavior by the Google server(s). Don't know how to get around it until you tell me more detail about what you're doing.

- Carl