My sky’s are washed out??

1 year 6 months ago #743617 by Noah J
Hello, so when I take photos of outdoors and when there are blue skies and white clouds, my skies always seem to get washed out.  Why is that?  


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1 year 6 months ago #743640 by Razky

Noah J wrote: Hello, so when I take photos of outdoors and when there are blue skies and white clouds, my skies always seem to get washed out. Why is that?

You're overexposing the sky. Practical digital photographers will employ HDR to (usually successfully) deal with it, while happy analog luddites like me resort to graduated neutral density filters when conditions permit.


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1 year 5 months ago #744304 by RIPbiker13
With an OFV found in SLR and DSLR cameras, you don't get the live preview. If your metering is set so that the ground is properly exposed, the sky will likely be over exposed. What you can do is check the photo after it's taken and get an idea of the exposure and compensate by reducing the exposure. 

So the ground will be darker, but the sky won't wash out. The ground is easier to bring back in post. You can restore an underexposed image, but you often cannot restore an over exposed image. To be safe, error of the side of under exposing in those situations. 


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1 year 5 months ago #744590 by Inez Villarin
When it comes to taking photos outdoors, I always underexpose my shots by a stop


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1 year 5 months ago #744683 by Jdub851
I had this problem shooting bracketed shots for exterior’s of houses. It wasn’t till I discovered “aperture” mode or “A” priority mode on my camera. It lets the camera dictate the aperture, and you can handle the rest. Try it out and see if it dramatically helps your images.


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1 year 2 months ago #748015 by CanonKid
Ripbiker nailed this one.  OP, how did you make out?

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1 year 1 month ago #748544 by Ivy Winchell
Question for OP - were you trying to photograph people and then the sky was blown out?  If so, were you using a flash?  


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