Just too much shiny around :p

Quote from: petercooman on 20 August 2015, 07:47:35 AM
It bugs me a lot that i took all pictures in the same conditions and the same camera settings, and some look dark as hell and others, like the dragon one, look good!

I suspect that is due to the amount of non-white compared to white background in the images. Most have small figures on a white background, the dragon one has a big dragon taking up a lot more of the image. Also the dragon is in the centre of the image.

Most cameras use some sort of centre weighting when working out the exposure and assume the image on average should be mid grey, some dark areas some light...

If most of the area, particularly the centre, is white it try's to make this grey, by under exposing the image.

The best way to demonstrate this is to take a picture of a black card and then a picture of a white card. Make sure the card fills the whole image.


Usually both pictures end up looking the same, mid grey

Bloody technology 

I used to have better results with our old light over the kitchen table, alas that armature was broken and had to be replaced.