"Pat" wrote:
Umm, I'm at a loss on what to say. Let's see, the OP shoots a blue sky
on a beautiful sunny day. It gets overexposed and washed out. Your
response is to shoot when the sky is less white? Maybe you (and other
posters) think it's hazy, I guess. Didn't any of you look at the
picture and see the big-ol shadow from the birch trees next to the
driveway? You don't get that on overcast days where I live.

The only way to retake that picture when it is "less white" would be to
retake it at night.

Still, the OP needs to do 3 things.

1. Get a polarizer. Maybe a gradiant ND filter, too.

Neither are of much value, IMHO.

2. Stop shotting into the sun. The house IS in shadow, but he had to
lighten the picture to see it okay.

Oh, absolutely. Of course it is difficult, for most
photographers, to rotate a house to get it into the sun...

Or if you live where I do, instead of shooting at noon, wait
until midnight for the sun to be on the other side of the house.

Fill flash??? :-)

3. Correct the white balance on the picture. I looks like the picture
is lacking some blue.

That might help some.

But reducing the exposure would be the single most effective step.

Added to that might be to shoot in raw mode to retain more data in
the shadows to allow software to lighten up the shadows without
blowing out the sky again.

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