Pictures from Cache

[+moghedian]

Here are some pictures from one of our caches. Boy are they darker than our last ones! Maybe the flash wasn't working? Some came out ok though....

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cachelog_details.asp?ID=61697&L=403850

[+Team Hoijong]

I did have a problem before with pictures that were sometimes to dark and sometimes to light..

 

FACT! in the night I turn the brightnes of my monitor down so everyting looks darker on the screen.. when i change brightness on pictures in the night i'm always making pictures to bright..

In the daytime its the same only the pictures are to dark because i got the contrast of the monitor to high,...

 

SOLUTION! I have microsoft office 2002 and there is a program called "Microsoft Photo Editor" when I edit a foto in there i just take the option AUTO BALANCE and the brightnes is automaticly set to a right value..

 

Hope it works for you. .

 

Irresisti

N12º 55.475

E100º 52.865

[+Markwell]

Just tried it with some of the pics from the cache posted. It helped a little, but not enough to distinguish faces.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocachers

[+Markwell]

Just tried it with some of the pics from the cache posted. It helped a little, but not enough to distinguish faces.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocachers

[+Team Hoijong]

Yeah I know what you mean.. I tryed it to with the pictures..

 

I think it needs to be edited manually to get the pictures right..

 

Irresisti

N12º 55.475

E100º 52.865

[+moghedian]

I tried to brighten the pictures but they came out looking to "pixel-ly" that we thought the darker ones looked better than the pixelated ones.

[classic773]

If flash is working, and pictures are too dark, try taking without a flash. With my digital camera, and I have stuff in the back ground that I want as well as foreground, I take the picture without the flash. This causes a longer shuttertime, which means you have to hold the camera steady, but sometimes the pictures turn out better.

[+Team Dralasites]

Moghedian, if you had the time/patience, you could probably recover most of the pictures (at least enough to recognize faces).

 

I tried with one of your pictures, just to see:

 

Before vs. After

 

It's still not as good as a photo taken in better lighting, but I think you can see the faces better. Good luck!

[+Jamie Z]

TD... your links to those photos didn't work for me.

 

Better try it again. It could be a problem with GeoCities...

 

Jamie

[+moghedian]

Didn't work for me either. Looking forward to the before/after pic.

 

Off Topic Here:.....What happens to Nate?

[+rdw]

Well, the geocities links worked for me. Good job with the picture, considering how bad the original was. Most of them are much worse. I downloaded and played with a few in Photoshop, but the faces are just too dark. The only way you'll get decent prints is to take the negatives to a good photo-finishing place that knows how to compensate for underexposed negatives. Then scan and tweak them with photo editing software.

 

Assuming it was a disposable camera, the problems are clear. First, the flash wasn't working or wasn't used. Second, the shutter speed was too fast. It's usually a fixed speed optimized for bright conditions, not the forest. Third, the bright backgrounds (one picture had the sun in the background) overpower the dark portions, including the face.

 

rdw

[+Prime Suspect]

I recently learned a lesson on cache cameras. I picked up my fully exposed camera from this cache and replaced it with new camera. The original camera (from REI) had a simple button you pressed to charge the flash. You have to press the button for each picture. This is a good thing! The camera I replaced it with had a small lever you pulled out to activate the flash. You guessed it - the first or second person to use the new camera failed to close the lever, and the flash battery was drained.