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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 826081" data-attributes="member: 48483">Frankly, I do not see great choices being made in the exposure settings for the dark exposures. The portrait would be best done with a flash to fill in the shadows and face.You are using center-metering instead of Matrix-metering. There are times and circumstances for each. The center of your photo of the sky with the sculpture to the left is what the camera exposed for.&nbsp; Matrix metering would have taken the whole scene in to average and should have brightened it up some. But realize you are shooting an unlight surface in the foreground against a sunlight sky. That is how you make a silhouette. There are limits to your sensor's dynamic range so you will loose the foreground to the shadow. That is why boosting ISO did some good.&nbsp;Building in shade with a much brighter sky is going to throw off most automatic metering of exposure. Again, Matrix-metering may be the better choice. But here is where you can bring the exposure-compensation adjustment to play. Too dark, dial in +2 or +3 exposure and see what you get.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 826081, member: 48483"] Frankly, I do not see great choices being made in the exposure settings for the dark exposures. The portrait would be best done with a flash to fill in the shadows and face. You are using center-metering instead of Matrix-metering. There are times and circumstances for each. The center of your photo of the sky with the sculpture to the left is what the camera exposed for. Matrix metering would have taken the whole scene in to average and should have brightened it up some. But realize you are shooting an unlight surface in the foreground against a sunlight sky. That is how you make a silhouette. There are limits to your sensor's dynamic range so you will loose the foreground to the shadow. That is why boosting ISO did some good. Building in shade with a much brighter sky is going to throw off most automatic metering of exposure. Again, Matrix-metering may be the better choice. But here is where you can bring the exposure-compensation adjustment to play. Too dark, dial in +2 or +3 exposure and see what you get. [/QUOTE]

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