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d7100 70-300 4.5 5.6g f-7.1 i.s.o. 200 1/800s oev auto 1,0,0

looking to see what i need to do to get the horses with more light to dark in front .sun is in back facing sun to get picture.
have a d7100 70-300mm lens. tried auto setting but this is what came out. races are run in evening so i have to shoot this way facing sun in evening . thanks

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Two things come to my mind. When shooting into the sun you need a lens shade. You need to overexpose to catch the shadow detail and then pull the highlights back in post. Perhaps a neutral density filter would help maybe. Be aware of the shutter speed because this is an action shot.

The D7100 I am sure is very capable of handling the situation I think but you may also need a faster lens.

​Donald are you familiar with what EXIF is?

A few other things...look into Edgar Degas and his horse racing paintings to find different approaches to composition. Also the rule of thirds and composing on the angle. You have composed on the angle with this photograph it just needs to be a little bit different...give the horses some "space" in front of them to run into.

Lots of things to consider with photography it is a very convoluted thing.

Here is my attempt at trying to bring back some of the shadows but alas I probably butchered it because I do not have Lightroom which is what you need plus different settings than the ones you used. Also shoot in RAW.

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Some "Active D Lighting" might help.

If you shot this in RAW you can probably do quite a bit with it. If it's a .jpg, though, it's going to be tough to bring up the shadows, noticeably, without blowing out the highlights.

Don knows about Active D perhaps he will chime in to help you...

Eye-level said:

Two things come to my mind. When shooting into the sun you need a lens shade. You need to overexpose to catch the shadow detail and then pull the highlights back in post. Perhaps a neutral density filter would help maybe. Be aware of the shutter speed because this is an action shot.

The D7100 I am sure is very capable of handling the situation I think but you may also need a faster lens.

​Donald are you familiar with what EXIF is?

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no im not familiar with what exif is?

This is what I suspected. Donald bear with us for you are a beginner. There are lots of things we can teach you but it will take a while. EXIF data is a requisite for posting images in the critique thread (your posted image does not have the EXIF data included however you did say you set the camera to auto and boy did it make everything 18% grey - cameras are so stupid haha). Many folks don't understand the rules for this specific part of the forum because many folks are beginners like yourself. I have even done it myself. I have even sort of broke the rules by not giving you a critique rating based upon the 12 elements. I could just tell right away that you needed a little more in depth guidance. It will take time but I think with all of the people here at Nikonites we can help you improve tremendously and that is what the Photo Critique section is all about. Don't be wary either because none of us here are master photographers or we wouldn't be dallying around at a place like this...

This is really technical probably to much for you (I know it is for me!) but maybe someone will chime in and give a simple plain english explanation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format

Look at some of the other threads in this Photo Critique category to get an idea of what EXIF "looks" like. It is basically a listing of all the gobble the gook camera settings that are part of your image file. I am not exactly sure why your EXIF info is not with your picture. A lot of times I shoot film shots and post them...with film there will be no EXIF data because it is a digital thing.