Recovering Images from Memory Card

[ErinR1020]

Hi!
Im a new photographer...very new. Today I had a shoot, and did not realize my Nikon D3000 was in "M" mode. I didn't realize this until a few hours after the shoot when I went to go through the images, and every single one was all blank.

Is there any way I cam recover these images? I already tried to upload them into my computer, and they are all blank.

Thanks!

 

[oldmacman]

It doesn't sound like there is anything to recover. When you say blank, are they black or white? Can you read the exif data on them? Did you ever glance at the camera LCD after a shot and see what you were shooting?

 

[ErinR1020]

They all turned out black. The shoot was a quick one, we had a limited time, so I just started shooting and never looked at my display..big mistake!

 

[ErinR1020]

http://exifdata.com/exif.php here is data on one of the images

 

[ErinR1020]

MakeNIKON CORPORATIONModelNIKON D3000Aperture22
Exposure Time1/4000 (0.00025 sec)Lens IDAF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G EDLens Spec55-200mm f/4-5.6 GFocal Length55.0 mm
FlashNo FlashFile Size313 kBFile TypeJPEGMIME Typeimage/jpegImage Width1944Image Height2896Encoding ProcessBaseline DCT, Huffman codingBits Per Sample8Color Components3X Resolution300Y Resolution300SoftwareMicrosoft Windows Photo Viewer 6.1.7600.16385

 

[oldmacman]

MakeNIKON CORPORATIONModelNIKON D3000Aperture22
Exposure Time1/4000 (0.00025 sec)Lens IDAF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G EDLens Spec55-200mm f/4-5.6 GFocal Length55.0 mm
FlashNo FlashFile Size313 kBFile TypeJPEGMIME Typeimage/jpegImage Width1944Image Height2896Encoding ProcessBaseline DCT, Huffman codingBits Per Sample8Color Components3X Resolution300Y Resolution300SoftwareMicrosoft Windows Photo Viewer 6.1.7600.16385

1/4000th is very quick and at f22 you are going to need lots of light. What you have are severely under exposed shots. The fact that the exif data exists means your camera did shoot, there just wasn't enough light to expose the image. Sorry.