How depth of field affects the sky

[in2thewild]

It can do. Some sensors are able to capture more dynamic range than others, but there is a limit. At the moment Sony sensors have the edge (they are also in Nikon cameras) being able to capture 14 EVs in one exposure, but our eyes see around 28 EVs.

They way around this is to either use filters to even the exposure on different parts of the image or produce multiple exposures covering the full range of the scene and combine them in post (aka High Dynamic Range or HDR).

OK thanks- that makes sense now.