I bought a Nikon Nikkor lens when I bought my Nikon D80.
It is a 16-85mm wide angle zoom.
The problem I have with it is trying to get a nice landscape pic - meadow in the foreground, treed hills leading the eye to the sky where there is a couple nice fluffy white clouds which are blown out and burned up so bad it ruins my effort!
Clear blue skies are perfect, full cloud cover is boring but perfect.
Deep woods pics with streams are difficult too if I am facing toward the sun. The darks get too dark or the highlighted greenery gets burned out.
It's a great lens for me otherwise.
Any suggestions?
It's not the lens.
Read your Owner's Manual to leaqrn how the camera meters a scene. Buy a book on digital camera metering and read it. And, PRACTICE.
When your eye moves over a scene, the lens automatically opens and closes, according to the light level in that part of the scene. YOUR MIND REMEMBERS what each part of the scene is like and integrates the parts into a wholel
Your camera cannot do that. If it is reading a broad range of light intensity, it cannot adapt to all of the sections. Depending on how the camera is metering -- spot or average -- it will adapt as best it can, but it cannot capture all segments of the scene in "perfect" exposure.
You need to understand how the camera meters, and then control that aspect of the photographic process.
hate to admit this but I use Kodak Easyshare software and doctor alot of my prints after the fact......you should be able to download a copy for free from the net......
it has a "enhance" feature that lightens dark pics and it also has another feature called Scene Something or other where you can adjust the lights, darks and shadows and highlights.....has crop feature,etc....also a nifty one where you can make it black and white or sepia tone......not too much you can't do with Kodak Easyshare software
anyway, hope this helps.....my camera is great ( Sony Cybershot) except it tends to overexpose the sky.....I do what I can with Kodak Easyshare but usually just throw in the towel and call it a day 🙂
PS...A general rule of thumb is to have the sun behind you when shooting a pic ( not being a smarty pants.....you might not know that)
PPS.....not sure if you want to soften your images but sometimes if you put some pantyhose over the lens that will soften the image and give things a hazy appearance which could be cool in a meadow image
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PPS.....not sure if you want to soften your images but sometimes if you put some pantyhose over the lens that will soften the image and give things a hazy appearance which could be cool in a meadow image
Oh great ... now Twisty is going to be pulling off his pantyhose to take pictures ... :lmao:
Seriously though, I am interested in reading about the various photo editing software (that's free) ... I don't really like the Olympus free software ... Maybe I'll look for the Kodak software and try that ...
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