Can anyone fix this picture?

[SniperRed3]

It detrmines how sensitive the film is to light. If you put it high in daylight it becomes speckled.

 

[Dagger311]

Oh. I didn't mess with anything but gamma, which I had to set almost all the way up.

 

[Azuremen]

I'm not understanding the point... You're saying unpreparedness caused it, when I was fully prepared to take the picture?

You clearly weren't fully prepared or else the exposure wouldn't have been off. Go read about exposure and metering a bit and perhaps you'll understand. And once you understand you can make better use of a more advanced camera app on your phone.

 

[Dagger311]

You clearly weren't fully prepared or else the exposure wouldn't have been off. Go read about exposure and metering a bit and perhaps you'll understand. And once you understand you can make better use of a more advanced camera app on your phone.

What do you mean fully prepared? How can you possibly be more prepared than ready to take the picture? The reason it went bad is I froze, and had to quickly take it. And to be honest, I'm halfway glad I did, because I only saw it for a few seconds, and I'm glad I didn't have a tablet blocking my view. An insanely beautiful car.

 

[Ameer67]

What do you mean fully prepared? How can you possibly be more prepared than ready to take the picture? The reason it went bad is I froze, and had to quickly take it. And to be honest, I'm halfway glad I did, because I only saw it for a few seconds, and I'm glad I didn't have a tablet blocking my view. An insanely beautiful car.

I think he's talking about the settings itself. All of your settings were adjusted before you came to the opportunity of taking the pic.

 

[Dagger311]

I think he's talking about the settings itself. All of your settings were adjusted before you came to the opportunity of taking the pic.

Oh. You can't pre-adjust settings on this.

 

[F1GTR]

Oh. You can't pre-adjust settings on this.

Lock your focus and exposure on something as bright and about the same distance away as the cars you usually spot. The camera won't be fooled by sudden movements that way.

 

[Dagger311]

Lock your focus and exposure on something as bright and about the same distance away as the cars you usually spot. The camera won't be fooled by sudden movements that way.

You can lock it? Unfortunately, I see cars from all distances. I even made a 100 foot shot once.

 

[F1GTR]

You can lock it? Unfortunately, I see cars from all distances. I even made a 100 foot shot once.

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On my iPhone I tap and hold where I want to focus and it locks the exposure and focus until I tap again. For distance it doesn't really matter once you hit more than about 2 meters on a phone, the depth of field on phone cameras is massive due to their tiny sensors. Just set it to focus on something about 5-10m away and you'll have almost everything in focus.

 

[Dagger311]

On my iPhone I tap and hold where I want to focus and it locks the exposure and focus until I tap again. For distance it doesn't really matter once you hit more than about 2 meters on a phone, the depth of field on phone cameras is massive due to their tiny sensors. Just set it to focus on something about 5-10m away and you'll have almost everything in focus.

My tablet can't do that.

 

[F1GTR]

My tablet can't do that.

Which is why I said find an app that will let you.

 

[Dagger311]

Oh. I'll look for one.

 

[eSZee]

"OK, so what?" you are asking. Well, the image below is what I got out of the camera, but because it was RAW, there was recoverable image data in those deep dark shadows. Similarly, recoverable data would have been present in a RAW version of your image. Again, irrelevant to getting your picture, but explaining what I mean by being able (or unable) to recover detail from under- or over-exposure.

It's much easier to recover detail from shadows than highlights.