HELP! my flash bleached out everyone in wedding pictures!?

My flash was either too powerful or I didn%26#039;t bounce the light right but some people are washed out or bleached out. Will photoshop save my butt? please, i need answers ASAP! thanks in advance!
HELP! my flash bleached out everyone in wedding pictures!?
Yeah Photoshop will save %26quot;your butt%26quot;..lol





Next time if there is alot of light put it on slow synchro instead
HELP! my flash bleached out everyone in wedding pictures!?
Nope. Sorry ... You%26#039;re screwed





If the highlights are that badly blown out there is simply no information there to recover. Photoshop won%26#039;t help.





I hope this wasn%26#039;t a professional job. It wasn%26#039;t ... was it?
Reply:I hope you were not the sole wedding photographer. I doubt that photoshop will save you from your bleached out images or the brides punches.
Reply:I don%26#039;t know if Photoshop will completely save the photos, but you can alter the contrast and whatnot to get it where you want. It might be possible that the backround in the pictures will be darker than you want it to be, but just play around with it. There are all sorts of lighting, color, contrast, and many other adjustments that photoshop lets you do to fix all different types of problems.





In the future, though, here are some things that might help:





If you%26#039;re in a well-lit area, especially outside in the sun, you don%26#039;t need flash.





If you use a digital camera, there are all different settings according to what you%26#039;re shooting. Use the outdoor/daytime setting, or something of the like.





If you use a 35mm (I have a minolta), you%26#039;re going to want to see if you can find a light diffusing lens. I use this outside, especially when I%26#039;m taking pictures in the sun near water. It greatly diffuses glare from the sun. For example, say I were taking a picture of a white sailboat on a lake on a sunny day. Without the light diffusing lens, the white of the boat, and the glare of the sun on the lake would just create one big white blur in the picture. With the light diffusing lens, it greatly tones down the glare, still showing the light hitting the water and the boat, but not creating a white-out.





If you use the disposable 35mm cameras, well, there%26#039;s not much you can do there. A lot of them just have automatic flash that you%26#039;re stuck with - the camera turns on, so does the flash. Your best bet is to just have them developed and tweek them in photoshop.





Hope that helps!
Reply:Your flash didnt do it you did. You turned the camera on, you decided to use the flash et cetera.





Why not post a link to an example? My geuss like most of the others is you are up a small river without anything to row with. I hope I%26#039;m wrong.





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Reply:This question should be referenced every time someone asks how much they should charge for shooting their first wedding. Note, I am not picking on you, hopefully you weren%26#039;t the event photographer.





You need to post a couple on Flickr or somewhere so we can see what and how bad the problem is. If the highlights are blown, there is no way to recover them, but if the files are RAW that *might* help a bit.





Good luck, I hope at least some are salvageable.
Reply:One more example of why mastering your equipment is a necessity, not a luxury. Buying an expensive camera and flash does not make anyone a photographer.





I sincerely hope you were not the primary shooter at the wedding. If you were, you are going to have one angry bride and you may even have the honor of participating in the legal system if she sues you. Last year, a bride in New York sued her florist because the flowers weren%26#039;t an exact match for the ones in the catalog.





Other than praying that the couple has the marriage annulled before you%26#039;re expected to produce a finished product you%26#039;re up the proverbial creek without a paddle - and your canoe is taking on water.