How to change picture from black to color?

I was taking photos with my Nikon d7200 camera and my teacher accidentally changed a setting without me knowing. I start taking pics with them and I realized a few minutes after they were just coming out as black. The photos were really important (from a baby shower that we can't recreate) and I was wondering if anyone had ANY ideas how to change the black photo to possibly color? Really desprate

Added (1). Just clarifying, when I mean black I mean the photo is completely black. Like you can see absolutely nothing, it is just a blank black screen. There's a little bit of light at the top like thats it

Maybe some of the pictures can be slightly touched up to add color to just a thing or 2… Such as this famous picture of a hippie teaching a rifle-man about flower power. Then… You can pretend you took the pictures in black and white ON PURPOSE!

No chance. It was taken that way, B/W. That is how it was saved so no turning it into color.

You never check your first shot? Horrible! Nikon has the easiest way to reset the camera back to factory settings. Just two buttons at the same time. It should be your habit to do so the very first time you pick up your camera for the day, everyday.

Your only option will be to colorize them with a photo editor such as photoshop.

Sad as it is, this is a MOST important learning moment for you. Whenever ANYONE, instructor, stranger, friend, or family touches a piece of your equipment, ALWAYS take that second or two to CHECK IT when it returns to your hand. Always. Were you a soldier and that were your weapon, not checking it could have cost your life… A bit dramatic, but the point is the same, nevertheless. ALWAYS check your equipment the moment you pick it up. Always.

A fully black photo should tell you that you are grossly underexposing your images.

Use your camera's light meter to pick the correct exposure.

My guess is that your instructor set your camera to manual exposure mode. In photography classes, learning how to balance ISO, shutter speed and lens aperture.

What this means is that your black photos have NO exposure, so you can't recover them

So far fhotoace is the only one here who is understanding what you are asking.

You can't make a totally black, totally underexposed image into something useful. If you could, photography would be pretty darn easy. Just take pictures at will with no regard to proper exposure, then magically make them good pictures later.

How could you possibly just pick up and start using the camera for important photos, (or ANY photos), without so much as looking to see what mode it was in and the light meter inside the camera flashing under exposure never caught your eye either?

Time for you to learn something about cameras and photography. Unfortunately, part of your education has to be these non existent photos. You can't make something out of nothing.

Sounds like the images are black because there was no light entering the camera's lens. In which case, there's no detail to lighten. Your only recourse is to take the photos over again, unless there's something we're not aware of going on.

Cyecking your camera beforehand AIN'T going to help you if you don't know what you're doing. You must learn to use your camera fully; READ teh Instructions Manual, at least!

A young lady called me late one weekend begging me to go to where she was b/c her camera "stopped working properly." She had it on Automatic but every time she pressed the shutter release it would take an awfully long time to take the image and the images looked distorted in the rear monitor. I asked questions as she got exasperated. I finally realized what the problem was; someone MUST have tampered with it while she used the bathroom.

I asked her to check the mode and she said it was Automatic repeatedly. I asked her to look at the wheel on the top left of her camera and tell me the letters; it was THEN she realized that it was on "A" instead of "Auto." For years we greet one another with, "'A' is for Aperture."

Is it possible that someone tampered and changed the Auto Mode of your camera to another mode, perhaps to "Manual"? Check to see if the Shutter Speed is very high, and the ISO is very low. IF the shutter speed is set high, it won't give light enough time to enter your camera, moreso if the aperture is also very small (high number); and, if the ISO is set very low, your camera sensor is not sensitive enough to capture light with a very fast shutter speed. That would be a mighty cruel (evil) prank.

You really must learn how to operate your camera (take a class!) and you need to read your camera's Instructions Manuel.

If there really is nothing in the photo - total blackness - then there's nothing to "turn into colour" - the camera simply did not record those pictures. Sorry, but that is how it is. Did you not look at the screen on the camera just after you had taken each photo? That is a lesson for next time.

Nikon d7200
http://www.nikonusa.com/...d7200.html

Unknown cause of absolute black, firmware update, assumption is that lens cap was removed, but mechanical error could be jammed mirror or mechanics, and possibly glitch in settings to which you change and test new images to verify modes are cause or not,

If there was any hidden image in data file, then option is to edit in photoshop or tools with exposure options, more so with raw, if jpg, then if dark pixel data is all that remains, you can't undo full or zero exposure values.
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