I was shootingi a pro soccer game and using my 7D II as my 2nd camera. I set both camera's to my preferred night setting for this stadium where I shoot very often. 1/1250, f2.8 and ISO Auto, and RAW + JPG. I use ISO auto because at night the stadium's lights are terrible and there are dark patches here and there. About 10 shots into the first use of the 7D II I saw the exposures were black. Lens cap? No, ISO was accidentally set to 100, not A. Not a huge deal, I shot about 750 pics and this was just 10, none of them critical moments in the game.
So the next day I thought just for fun let me see if I can recover those picks, and as I have a matched set of RAW and JPG, I'll do a side by side. I picked the best action photo, and spent about 1 minute on each file, and ended up adding 6.5 stops to both photos, then doing a little color correction. So using Photoshop CC 2015.5, the are the results:
SE9A9426_2 copy by RexPhoto91, on Flickr
Untitled by RexPhoto91, on Flickr
SE9A9426j by RexPhoto91, on Flickr
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And finally here is a correct exposure at ISO 6400 for comparison:
Untitled by RexPhoto91, on Flickr
So the next day I thought just for fun let me see if I can recover those picks, and as I have a matched set of RAW and JPG, I'll do a side by side. I picked the best action photo, and spent about 1 minute on each file, and ended up adding 6.5 stops to both photos, then doing a little color correction. So using Photoshop CC 2015.5, the are the results:
SE9A9426_2 copy by RexPhoto91, on Flickr
Untitled by RexPhoto91, on Flickr
SE9A9426j by RexPhoto91, on Flickr
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And finally here is a correct exposure at ISO 6400 for comparison:
Untitled by RexPhoto91, on Flickr