It was late in the day, and the sun was down enough so that the bottom part of these hills was in the shade and rather dark, but the high clouds were still brilliant white.
As you can see in the pic I took, the center cloud is completely blown out.
So, what should I have done to get this pic in the first place?
I don't use RAW, so that may be one problem, but given that I just use JPEG...
I think the EXIF is intact, but if not, I was using my K-x w/ a 16-45mm:
F4.5 - ISO200 - 1/200 - Auto WB - 45mm
I probably should have had a higher F-stop for a landscape, but it seems to me that would have increased exposure time and blown out the cloud more. True?
Is this a case where I should have used the EV compensation and allowed for a darker picture?
As I'm thinking in retrospect, is this an occasion where I should have enabled the Highlight Correction?
I was using P mode, but is this a case where I have to go all M?
At the time, I didn't realize the problem, and so I didn't think to experiment, and now I'm trying to anticipate should I have a similar situation in the future.
Thanks for any help!
BTW, no processing I can figure out how to do in PSElements9 can seem to fix it without making the cloud look strange. (Of course, I can basically remove the whole sky and replace it with a chunk from the pic that looks okay...) I've tried using AutoHDR which does punch up the rest of the pic, but it doesn't do anything for the cloud...
If I'm missing some good way of fixing this pic in PSElements9, that would be appreciated too!
Last edited by mgvh; 01-11-2017 at 01:58 PM.