Munson falls in Tillamook, Oregon. sky blown out.
A friend and I went out to shoot Munson falls. It was a cloudy day and we were facing ESE. The sky is so blown out. I tried shooting playing with my settings. The sky seemed to be blown out no matter what I did. Any ideas? Maybe shooting later in the day. These were shot around 11:00am.. This falls does not get the sun this time of year. The photos do not do the falls justice... My friend also said that his photos didn't come out very good. We are both using canons. I tried shooting from different spots also.
SonyA580
Loc: FL in the winter & MN in the summer
Well, you could always add clouds in post processing if you have a program and the skills to do it. Or, you could crop out most of the sky to make it less noticeable. Otherwise, you are stuck with a flat sky that exposure changes will not bring out.
In film photography, we called that 'the bald white sky'. No amount of post processing is going to save your image. Several ideas come to mind for the future: wait for better conditions(time of year, day, weather,etc.), bracketing your exposures for use kin an HDR program, or looking for subjects that do not include the sky. The bottom of falls is good.
Keep shooting!
Expose to right will help
As wisner says, you can try one of those. Wait for different time of the day or month or year, assuming that you get good lighting for the falls. Anytime you feel like the sky is blown out, it is best not to include that as part of the composition and still keep the photograph interesting.
Some ideas that you can try,
You can take at least 3 photos with different exposure and use the same to create an HDR image.
You could try using CPL (polarizer)filter.
You could try using graduated ND (neutral density)filter, which will give exactly the result you are expecting for this situation.
In the above photos, I am assuming that the camera is in either spot or center weighted metering mode. I think it would have been little darker (especially the bottom part), if it would have been Matrix metering.
Please also try different modes and let us know if you have any further questions.
Absent using a graduated neutral density filter on the lens or in post processing, cropping most of the sky out of the frame produces a very nice photo in your examples. Love the bottom of the falls shot.
Get Bryon Petersons book Understanding Exposure 3rd edition. It includes some of the tips suggested so far and many more.
Madman
Loc: Gulf Coast, Florida USA
Using my Nikon software, I would darken the entire image and then the shadow control to lighten the darker areas.
I like doing what Sony580 suggests in adding clouds. On the other hand, I thought that the total absence of sky features caused me to pay more attention to the main feature of your shot, the scenery of the falls, which I thought was beautifully subdued.
turtlepond wrote:
A friend and I went out to shoot Munson falls. It was a cloudy day and we were facing ESE. The sky is so blown out. I tried shooting playing with my settings. The sky seemed to be blown out no matter what I did. Any ideas? Maybe shooting later in the day. These were shot around 11:00am.. This falls does not get the sun this time of year. The photos do not do the falls justice... My friend also said that his photos didn't come out very good. We are both using canons. I tried shooting from different spots also.
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I shoot with the same constraints as you with grey dull skies. I shoot in HDR which helps considerably. In some cases I substitute a different sky in PP such as OneOne Perfect Photo Suite. This works reasonably well if there is not too much fine detail in the sky area. However in your case with all the fine branches etc it removes some of that, thus it is not a good solution.
You might want to look at the last entry on this digest. HDR processing before and after. There are three sets of images that show both HDR and changing of background.
Swede
If it's one of those gray, gray coastal Oregon days, try eliminating as much sky as possible or coming back when there is a better sky. Also I find the heavy blue cast in the shade dulls the greens down and takes the sparkle out of the falls. Correcting the color cast in the shade portions would add life and punch. Also the scene look like it could use a bit of clarity +/or contrast.
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A friend and I went out to shoot Munson falls. It was a cloudy day and we were facing ESE. The sky is so blown out. I tried shooting playing with my settings. The sky seemed to be blown out no matter what I did. Any ideas? Maybe shooting later in the day. These were shot around 11:00am.. This falls does not get the sun this time of year. The photos do not do the falls justice... My friend also said that his photos didn't come out very good. We are both using canons. I tried shooting from different spots also.
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My first thought, yes, that is a difficult range of light. The question I'd ask is did you photograph in RAW?
--Bob
[quote=turtlepond] Others will advise you better, but I think an ISO of 2000 is a bit hight. David
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turtlepond wrote:
Others will advise you better, but I think an ISO of 2000 is a bit hight. David
I didn't stop to think about viewing the exif data. You're absolutely correct. ISO 2000 is way to high.
--Bob
I didn't think of bracketing/hdr.. great idea.. thank you Mariraja
mariraju wrote:
As wisner says, you can try one of those. Wait for different time of the day or month or year, assuming that you get good lighting for the falls. Anytime you feel like the sky is blown out, it is best not to include that as part of the composition and still keep the photograph interesting.
Some ideas that you can try,
You can take at least 3 photos with different exposure and use the same to create an HDR image.
You could try using CPL (polarizer)filter.
You could try using graduated ND (neutral density)filter, which will give exactly the result you are expecting for this situation.
In the above photos, I am assuming that the camera is in either spot or center weighted metering mode. I think it would have been little darker (especially the bottom part), if it would have been Matrix metering.
Please also try different modes and let us know if you have any further questions.
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