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<blockquote data-quote="wud" data-source="post: 132655" data-attributes="member: 13578">Not really sure where to post this question, and not sure if it is the lens or the camera setting - let me know if theres a better forum for this. Was shooting a brown dog in bright sunshine yesterday. At first I had iso on auto and controlled aperture and shutter speed myself, but that didn't work out for me. So I put iso on 200, and let the camera take care of shutter speed. Got a LOT of overexposed pictures. I even set the +/- to -0,67 and -0,71. The shutter speed was way to low on the over-exposed pictures, but why is that? I got several just fine pictures too, so the problem must be something with the camera being confused about the light? What setting could I have done wrong? Is it because Im using Spot metering mode? Should it be Center Weighted instead? Took both pictures with large contrast in colour between dog and background, and pictures not so contrasted. Could it be because I didnt use the &quot;sunhat&quot; for the lens? (Used the 70-200mm f/2,8). Even though I made sure that I had the sun in my back.Let me know if you need more info.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wud, post: 132655, member: 13578"] Not really sure where to post this question, and not sure if it is the lens or the camera setting - let me know if theres a better forum for this. Was shooting a brown dog in bright sunshine yesterday. At first I had iso on auto and controlled aperture and shutter speed myself, but that didn't work out for me. So I put iso on 200, and let the camera take care of shutter speed. Got a LOT of overexposed pictures. I even set the +/- to -0,67 and -0,71. The shutter speed was way to low on the over-exposed pictures, but why is that? I got several just fine pictures too, so the problem must be something with the camera being confused about the light? What setting could I have done wrong? Is it because Im using Spot metering mode? Should it be Center Weighted instead? Took both pictures with large contrast in colour between dog and background, and pictures not so contrasted. Could it be because I didnt use the "sunhat" for the lens? (Used the 70-200mm f/2,8). Even though I made sure that I had the sun in my back. Let me know if you need more info. [/QUOTE]

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