Hawker

Many of the streets of Kuala Lumpur are lined with street vendors, or 'hawkers' selling anything from satay sticks to frogs, stingray and crab. This was in Petaling Street - the Chinatown markets area. Today was a better day than yesterday - whitewater rafting on the Padas River. I'm getting home every afternoon and being somewhat disappointed with the photos I've taken. I'm struggling to come to terms with the bright, hazy atmosphere here in Malaysia and a lot of my shots are turning out a bit washed out and overexposed. Hopefully nothing a bit of photoshop magic can't take care of, but it sure is frustrating.

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• I presume that Auto white balance could be the culprit, trying changing to either daylight or cloudy. Enjoy ur trip!
  Ashish Sidapara @ 2006-12-08 00:27:07
• Yah - mess with lots of different settings. Try taking shots that accentuate the haziness. Go grey baby! It can be very cool. I love this shot by the way - excellent available light work.
  Gary @ 2006-12-08 09:11:23
• Difficult to say what the problem might be as you are talking exposure and color balance. ‘Restore factory settings’ might be worth a try . . ?
  AG @ 2006-12-08 09:12:26
• Tena koe ehoa
  For what these are (street images)I'd tend to be not to hard on yourself. The style photography dictates that a moment is just that! Often you can only capture what a moments time (split seconds)give you in terms of camera set-up, unless your fast that is.
  Yes I'd be inclined to agree with AG initailly, try resetting the camera. Or another option is to measure your WB first. But this is not always an ideal process or quick enough process in a street environment. I tend to stop up at a higher F# when light is really harsh and and adjust speed to suit the light from there. The result is that I'm able to save a digital image in post processing because I can still add light to it. But if it was over -exposed it's pretty much see ya later for that image, i.e. - It's easier to add light to an under-exposed image in post processing than it is to remove it from an over-exposed image. Well at least that's what I find.
  ndiginiz @ 2006-12-08 13:04:30

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