Fuji exposure recovery.
AKA oops I forgot to change the settings
We’ve all done it. Been shooting some amazing artistic shot, surely a prize winner (or at least that’s what our mum tells us)…
Amazing artistic picture, surely worthy of an award of some kind.
Then suddenly a wild Australian brushturkey appears!* You move the camera down and snap! Prize winning picture part 2 surely! You check to see the masterpiece and what do you see? …
You mean ISO 400, f/5.6 and 1/1250 isn’t a universal setting?!
Luckily you shot RAW and can recover this! With Fuji’s ISO-less sensor you should be able to just push it and simulate a higher ISO setting at least… YAY… well let’s see.
Push it +5 exposure in LR…
+5 exposure
and 100% details
Still looks a bit dark and definitely noisy… so let’s…
PUSH BLACKS ALL THE WAY UP
I’m… talking about Lightroom settings…
So… I non-racistly pushed blacks all the way up (it’s a setting…)…
Blacks pushed to +100
100% detail
So does it work? Kinda…
JPEG CAN DO THAT!!!!!!!!
Now some will say “I don’t need RAW I can do that with a Jpeg!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Jpeg lol
Anyway to prove the point, I converted the RAW to a jpeg and edited it exactly the same way as I did to the RAW above…
Ahhh hahahahaha…
Here’s a 100% comparison you can slide left and right (which one was from RAW and which one is JPEG?!):
Conclusion
Fuji apparently have an “ISO-less” sensor, which basically means pushing it in post is the same as upping the ISO.
While the results are pretty noisy, considering it was basically a black screen it’s not bad. RAW helps of course as it maintains more details. Jpeg does have a little latitude, but not nearly as much as RAW.
I know there’s a LOT of photographers out there who shoot nothing but JPEG. Because they ALWAYS get it right in camera…
For the rest of us. Shooting RAW is probably a better choice. I would recommend trying your best to get the exposure right in camera of course, but RAW offers a lot of advantages over JPEG.
*This is really what happened, I was shooting the birds on the horizon and forgot to change the settings when I saw the brushturkey.
