Please help me find a solution...

[janetg]

i would just change it to b/w...

[venchka]

See Tom. It is easy. Everybody is doing it.

[toverman]

David's fix does make it look better, but for a long-term solution find out how to use your camera with more control than "P" allows. As mentioned, the XTi gets loud above 400, and underexposed images show even more noise.

I have an XTi but haven't used it in awhile. Mine jumps from ISO 800 to 1600; guess it can be set to incremental ISOs?

[kronos2818]

Originally Posted by picture.perfect.view

Thank you! You just became my hero :) Can you tell this has been driving me nuts?! I would love to have all the high end equipment and editing software so this problem would never happen, but until I graduate college, I have to utilize what I have.

Here is my take on the image, in Photoshop CS whatever version:
1. Get a white balence off the grooms shirt coller.
2. Apply a little nosie ninja.
3. Sharping with unsharp mask at Amount (250) with a Radius (1.0) and Threshold (7).
and here is the result:


But I agree with most posts here, you need to learn your camera's "Manual" settings and get out of "Program".

I hope this helps.

[venchka]

The cake is blown out and up. At least it's white.

The cake looks best in the original.

Go figure.

[kronos2818]

Originally Posted by venchka

The cake is blown out and up. At least it's white.

The cake looks best in the original.

Go figure.

This was a 10 second fix.... If I had done 2 layers adjusted the color balence in layer one (top layer), gray scaled layer two (lower layer) and slightly selectively erased sections of the blown out cake from the top layer to get the detail back. That would have worked too, but I just wanted to give her a starting point. And yes the cake looks better in the origenal because the camera exposed for the cake...lol

[texkam]

another photographer told me it would help me take photos of the white cake

Well, he was right. LOL.

[studiocygnet]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

For some reason I just LOVE this post.....

Y'all are making me giggle

[David Whatley]

So who was this other photographer?

[Jake]

Originally Posted by picture.perfect.view

....I definitely regret listening to that guy and using a high ISO. :( I have always done well with my camera and never had a problem until I listened to him.

Well, the guy telling you to use high ISO wasn't really giving bad advice.
The problem here is not understanding proper exposer and how to balance it out with flash.



BTW, I just downloaded a full res XTI file at ISO 1600 and it's plenty usable. I wouldn't be afraid to use it at a wedding.

[PhotoByLeal]

Canon 5D MK II + 24 or 35 f/1.2!
Awesome ISO!
LOW LIGHT!

J/K.....