Overexposed pictures are usually harder to save. Somehow highlight details that are blown (aka overexposed) cannot be saved, compared to shadow details that are underexposed - those can be saved albeit at the expense of noise if the underexposure is too severe.
Did you shoot in RAW? If you shot in RAW then there is more hope than if you shot in JPG. Also depends on how too bright your pictures are. If you could post them up and let us know what format you shot in, then the people here could give you better advice as to how to go about doing it. =)
thanks for your reply
the picture was taken in jpg btw......
Hey - best I could do with your picture:
Tell me if you wish me to remove it.
Way too blown already, has some posterisation, and it looks really bad in corner because the skin tone is way too white and ghostly, so I just changed it to B&W and did some contrast/highlights/shadows manipulation.
If you look at it the details at some areas , i.e. the contours have been destroyed by the overexposure.
i hope the orginal does not look like that.
btw, this pics is a goner.
thanks for your help anyway.....
btw is it because of flash or the camera quality (olympus 3.2 mega pixels) that causes this?
Because of flash.
Overexposure is a horrible, horrible thing. Exposure is very important! =)
so to put it simple it's better not to use flash when taking indoor pics?
thanks for your help anyway.....
btw is it because of flash or the camera quality (olympus 3.2 mega pixels) that causes this?
it doesn't help much... theres already no color detail, but using U-point you will only be getting greyish skinMaybe can try Nikon Capture NX u point.
Not sure if it will help.
You can download a trail version from nikon website.
so to put it simple it's better not to use flash when taking indoor pics?
No, most indoor pictures need flash, but to take a good one which is properly exposed, you should learn how to make the right exposure to compensate for flash, and if your flash can be controlled, how to control it.
What mode were you using for that? And what sort of camera, what sort of flash? =)
look at the original and see if your focus is at the background instead? if so most probably your camera have ttl the flash for the background as it thought it is very far away and fired at full power.i was using auto flash and previously there is no such problems