Blown out...

[chumad]

Just a curious question concerning your definition of blown out areas of a picture, mine is a lack of any definition of color. I think many shots capture the image just as it presents itself and that includes stark white captures however if it covers an area of any particular image that is approaching the size of space that is in definition then I consider it to be blown. Must be many definitions and I am wondering what some of you consider it to be?
Chuck

Take a look at the link below for a more detailed explaination

http://www.betterphoto.com/article.asp?id=57

[Shaggydoo]

I consider blown-out to mean a large area of "dead pixels",or dead space

[radugrozes]

Originally posted by chumad
Just a curious question concerning your definition of blown out areas of a picture, mine is a lack of any definition of color.

IMHO, lack of any kind of details. If you want to be more precise, anything aproaching 255. 255. 255 as RGB values.

If you can see the picture's hystogram, if it pushes the right side, it has blown out areas (it has pixels already at 255 255 255).