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Old June 7th 06, 03:33 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default Please, why is sky washed out?

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:01:21 -0400, Celcius wrote:

"Daniel Silevitch" wrote in message
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:22:04 -0400, Celcius wrote:
Hi everyone!

Why is the sky washed out while my wife with a point and shoot gets blue
skys?
It seems to me the sky was quite blue when I took this photo:
http://celestart.com/images/publiques/15.jpg

Any ideas? Recommendations?


The sky is over-exposed; basically, it's so bright that the camera
sensor is saturating and just sees it as "white". You needed to tell the
camera to take in less light, either by using a faster shutter speed or
by stopping down the lens. Depending on the features your camera has,
there are a variety of ways of doing that.

-dms


Sorry Daniel, I forgot to say. I have a Canon Rebel XT and the lens I used
was a Canon EF-S 17-85mm 1 4.5-5.6 IS USM


OK, so you have a camera with a full set of manual controls. A few
options:

When you meter, meter on the sky rather than the house. This will
convince the camera to take in less light.
Meter on the house, but dial in a negative exposure compensation.
Go into full manual mode, and set the aperture/shutter yourself
Switch from JPG mode to RAW mode; there may be useful data in the RAW
file that got lost when the camera converted to JPG.

-dms