ratbatblue
TPF Noob!
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- Nov 1, 2010
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- Central Texas
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First, my camera insists on turning a nice sky-at-dusk scene into a brightened spectacle. (That's in Program mode; if I use Auto, it wants to use the flash.) I guess that's the camera doing its job of working "well" in low light and I need to use Exposure Comp to counter it, in order to get anything close to what my eyes are seeing? Secondly, in trying to get a shot of a pleasant sunset sky, but keep some detail of our fence line for contrast, again using Program mode, the camera wants to make the darker area invisibly black. I've been reading up on dynamic range and I understand that this is generally a problem to be solved in photography. My concern is how to tell if I'm just asking too much of the camera and, no matter how much tinkering I do, I won't get that shot, or if this is me being green as grass and I simply have to read a lot and experiment. I guess I need to mention that I'm using the 18-55mm kit lens, which I'm sure isn't helping any. But it's the camera's sensor that dictates its dynamic range abilities, right?