wah iso1600 .. no wonder the sky colour like tat haha ... yea always try to use timer so when u press the shutter u wun shake the camera .... no tripod nvm .. try to get a flat surface and put ur cam on it

oohh....so wat iso shld i use? 800?

lowest as possible ? If you have a tripod or having your camera on flat surface ... surely use lowest iso possible ...

hi all,

can i ask if my osaka castle pic is over exposed? what am I doing wrong?



This post has been edited by buffalowings: Jul 25 2007, 04:50 PM

It's indeed over exposed. It's difficult to fix it at post process.
Next time, use a tripod and shot 2 frames. Use aperture bracketing. Or meter the sky, lock the meter, compose, shoot, then let the cam meter the building and shoot again.
After that use Photoshop to composite it. Refer to the guide in the following link.

http://www.juzaphoto.com/eng/articles/laye..._layer_mask.htm

thanks....d40 dont have aperture bracketing... ...

so u recommend i use spot meterin on sky and then building?

can i ask y? blur lar me newbie....

and what do you mean by using photoshop to composite?

thanks for the tip...shall read your link now....

I think what kelvinyam meant is exposure bracketing. There is no aperture bracketing in any cameras.

No aperture bracketing in any camera? I'm not sure about SLR, but Canon S3 has aperture bracketing. You can also call it exposure bracketing if that's what you mean. For me both is same.

Composite means merging two photos with different exposure into one as mentioned in the guide.

I dont think D40 has either

Unless I've been missing something in my D40!

Just do it manually then. Take a few shots with different exposure compensations.

some pics from london for your comments (for my improvement-tq):-

Big Ben



English Rose Garden



Taxi



Shopping @ New Bond Street



This post has been edited by buffalowings: Aug 28 2007, 05:43 PM

Hi, i think you can play more with the DOF with the English Rose Garden photo. Big Ben is slightly overexposed.
Just my 2 cents. Overall they are good

thanks oracle...I dunno y whenever i take shots that include sky my picc become over exposed... D40 problem?? (likely my photgraphy skills problem )

Don't shoot straight to the sun ?

Basically when you meter the sky, you will not overexpose the sky (as in your shot). Then by not overexposing your sky, you might underexpose the building. Hence you need to take another shot of the building at the same position but this time metering the building so that the building is properly exposed. Once you have these two pictures, you can blend them in using photoshop.

Eiffel Tower



Monument - Dark Skies



Arc de Truimph



NotreDame



Disneyland