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Blue skies?? My photos always turn out grey & drab
I have a Rebel Ti with a 25-80 and a 100-300. I am fairly new to photography so I usually use the full auto setting.No matter how blue the sky is when I take a photo I never get a blue sky!? I have tried early morning, afternoon, late afternoon, what am I doing wrong?
July 06, 2004
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Jon Close |
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The sky is very much brighter than your foreground subjects. Film cannot capture the contrast range that your eyes percieve, so when the exposure is good on the near subject, the sky tends to go pale blue to white. Try using a polarizer, or if you have a level horizon in the scene a graduated neutral density filter, to get a darker blue sky.
July 06, 2004
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Bob Cammarata |
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Cloudscape
Nikkor 50 mm, Provia 100
Bob Cammarata
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Pastoral
Nikkor 50 mm, Provia 100
Bob Cammarata
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You can also try switching to "metered-manual", and meter directly off the sky to capture its true blue.If the sun is behind you, the light intensity hitting the foreground landscape will be close enough to that which is reflected off the distant sky to render the entire scene pretty close to how it appeared to the naked eye. (See example..."Pastoral".) If the sun is in front of you, your foreground will silhouette.
Unless there are interesting shapes and designs you want to accentuate, you may want to eliminate as much of the foreground landscape as possible, and make the sky itself the main point of interest. (See example..."Cloudscape") Both examples were metered off a blue portion of the sky without any lens filtration.
July 06, 2004
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Dave Hockman |
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Polarizer, not into the direct sun, and bracket 3 shots. You will get the "blue". I bracket by 1/3 to 1/2 stop either way. Good slow saturated film helps as well.Good Luck! Dave
July 23, 2004
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