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mdm041:

--- Quote from: KyleSTL on April 30, 2012, 03:14:55 PM ---I photographed a few friends in the St Louis Marathon last year, and many of my pictures were affected by the hi-vis green shirts that they gave to all the participants.  The shirts also REALLY threw off the metering, resulting in quite a few under exposed photos (I was using Av then).

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If it is a nice sunny day then the exposure shouldn't really change much from shot to shot...I will typically meter off of grass or a gray card in those situations and then keep my exposure the same...I may play around with the ss or ap but always adjusting the other to keep the same expsosure...this helps alot on when you have consistant lighting.

EYEONE:

--- Quote from: awinphoto on April 30, 2012, 03:57:41 PM ---Plop it in photoshop, clone or healing brush content aware, gone in mere seconds.  Color/brightness will vary depending on your saturation and brightness settings.  But it is what it is..

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Better yet, you could do that right in LR using the spot remover. That looks like a crop so I'm not sure how big the actual cone is but if it's small enough you can remove with without too many ill effects.  Then spot reduce the clarity a tad to hide the removal even more.

Astro:
that is not a cone.

that is the purple tentacle with an orange cloak!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle

sorry... guinness made me do it....   ;)

KyleSTL:

--- Quote from: neuroanatomist on April 30, 2012, 03:23:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: KyleSTL on April 30, 2012, 03:14:55 PM ---...many of my pictures were affected by the hi-vis green shirts that they gave to all the participants.  The shirts also REALLY threw off the metering...

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Yikes, that's almost as bad as the top LCD light leak.  :o

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This was not a complaint, neuro, only a statement of fact.  I love my camera and don't fault it.  No reason to be judgemental and sarcastic.

As for mdm041's suggestion, I tried that exact method this year, but the lighting changes by the minute since marathons start near dawn and go til mid-day (and it was partly cloudy, so the sun kept coming and going).  Many shots were better this year than last, which I am happy about, but I do not blame my camera for my own inexperience with sports photography and skills that fall short of its ability.

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