Joy Lafontaine , May 18, 2007; 05:15 p.m.
I recently took some weddings photos, most which were very good. One of the
locations for the pictures was a bright red brick wall. The sun was bright
that day and there was no shade to use. I had my light meter set right in the
middle with an apropriate ISO, but the wedding dress was soo bright you could
not see the detail on it. Everything else looked alright. Any suggestions ?
Joy
Tim Lookingbill 
, May 18, 2007; 05:40 p.m.
How about chopping that image down to a web manageable
size like say less than 200K for us poor folks on dial-up?
Emre Safak 
, May 18, 2007; 05:47 p.m.
Did you shoot RAW, rather than JPEG?
JC Uknz , May 18, 2007; 06:03 p.m.
I cannot suggest anything to correct the situation* but for the future I suggest that you expose for the dress, -1 or -2EV perhaps, and adjust in editing.
And I echo the plea for small files, as per site requirements, with perhaps a 100% crop to sho detail ... but your description of your problem is enough.
Short of a re-shoot using the correct exposure for the dress.
I truely sympathise with your predicament becuase I fouled up in a similar manner way back.
Mark Dalrymple , May 18, 2007; 06:06 p.m.
Check your histogram - an overexposure like that will make it fall off to the right. Digital
dosn't handle over exposure well, so you'd want to set your exposure compensation down a
couple of clicks. If you have time, playing with different metering modes may make the
scene expose better.
Even though I'm primarily a jpeg guy for my own stuff, for something important like a
wedding, I'd shoot in raw format for better after-the-fact tweaks. But once it's overexposed,
the detail is lost for good.
Simon Hickie - Melbourne, Derbyshire, UK 
, May 18, 2007; 06:09 p.m.
Hi Joy. What camera and metering mode were you using?
Frank Skomial 
, May 18, 2007; 06:33 p.m.
Depending on what camera, you could use exposure bracketing method of shooting, and select the best exposed picture. This comes very handy with white dresses and harsh lighting, but required more space in the memory card.
Joy Lafontaine , May 18, 2007; 06:39 p.m.
Is it too late to resize that photo ?
Joy Lafontaine , May 18, 2007; 06:42 p.m.
I didnt shoot in Raw, So i guess thats the best thing to if I think it will need editing ? I am shooting with a canon rebel xt and I dont know too much about metering modes, I just use the one in the viewfinder and adjust my settings to get that right. My apologies about the large photo (my first time)
Robert Lee , May 18, 2007; 06:46 p.m.
If you shot jpeg, then no, you're done; you get what you see. If you shot RAW, there is a chance that there is additional recoverable highlight information.
