Hi,
I havea problem mastering this particular kind of shot where I take in scenery with a person in the foreground. Now what happens is that the udnerexposure occurs when the lighting is bad - ie. the sky is overcast or filled with lots of white and very bright clouds. This gives off lots of specular reflections and causes the camera to be fooled into the thinking that the scene is brighter than it really is. Hence whatever subject is in the foreground - person, animal or building gets underexposed to varying degrees depending on the colour of the subject. The darker the subject, the worse the underexposure. I understand that if I crop of the sky, then the problem solves itself but in ertain scenes, u want a bit of the sky or want 1/2 your photo to contain the sky.
Anyone can help me with a simple solution? I was using a Minolta 505si on Aperture priority on f/11 - f/22 with a circular polariser. Now shots where the sky is a beautiful blue) like in postcards do not exhibit this problem at all. With human subjects, as they are nearer, the flash is used to expose them correctly but what happens is that the picture looks as if there is no flash. With buildings, that is not possible so they look even worse. Usually when I leave my flash on at f/11 or smaller, the shutter spped is at 1/125 sec or faster but the camera keeps telling me that it is too slow still!
Does the circular polariser affect the shot and cause it to be underexposed? I fancy that the shot turns out worse without the polariser since it effectively acts a ND filter to reduce the light by 2 stops. I have tried such shots in the past without a polariser but the shots looked very very washed out.
So any ideas? Sorry I have no photos to show as I haven't have a website where I can link photos. Maybe someone can give a url to a good host? Geocities does not allow hosting unfortunately and that is where my first website is!
I havea problem mastering this particular kind of shot where I take in scenery with a person in the foreground. Now what happens is that the udnerexposure occurs when the lighting is bad - ie. the sky is overcast or filled with lots of white and very bright clouds. This gives off lots of specular reflections and causes the camera to be fooled into the thinking that the scene is brighter than it really is. Hence whatever subject is in the foreground - person, animal or building gets underexposed to varying degrees depending on the colour of the subject. The darker the subject, the worse the underexposure. I understand that if I crop of the sky, then the problem solves itself but in ertain scenes, u want a bit of the sky or want 1/2 your photo to contain the sky.
Anyone can help me with a simple solution? I was using a Minolta 505si on Aperture priority on f/11 - f/22 with a circular polariser. Now shots where the sky is a beautiful blue) like in postcards do not exhibit this problem at all. With human subjects, as they are nearer, the flash is used to expose them correctly but what happens is that the picture looks as if there is no flash. With buildings, that is not possible so they look even worse. Usually when I leave my flash on at f/11 or smaller, the shutter spped is at 1/125 sec or faster but the camera keeps telling me that it is too slow still!
Does the circular polariser affect the shot and cause it to be underexposed? I fancy that the shot turns out worse without the polariser since it effectively acts a ND filter to reduce the light by 2 stops. I have tried such shots in the past without a polariser but the shots looked very very washed out.
So any ideas? Sorry I have no photos to show as I haven't have a website where I can link photos. Maybe someone can give a url to a good host? Geocities does not allow hosting unfortunately and that is where my first website is!