Today's sky

Thoie

I'm over in a friend's house, and looking at a fabulous colour blue sky, with bare branched trees in front of it. Sadly I don't have my camera with me, but I'm thinking about how I'd go about capturing it - it's a tricky one, and I reckon that normal metering would lead to the sky being washed out.

How would you go about capturing it? Would you stop down much? Stop up? Use a polarising filter? Would you take your reading from the grass below, or try meter on the trees?

If anyone has the time to go out and see for themselves, I'm in Rathgar looking east

Borderfox

Meter of the sky and shoot away leaving the branches dark

challengemaster

Meter the sky, shoot in raw, recover the detail of the leaves in PS.

PaulieC

challengemaster wrote: »

Meter the sky, shoot in raw, recover the detail of the leaves in PS.

You mean the leaves on the bare branched trees?

Peace

I repeatedly mash the buttons on my camera until it takes something worth keeping. :pac:

Thoie

cambo_gueno wrote: »

You mean the leaves on the bare branched trees?

Secret Option C: Wait for the leaves to regrow

challengemaster

lol, >_> I didn't read it properly. glanced over it earlier lmao.

well then.. D'oh.:pac:

Thoie

Of course, the one piece of advice no-one gave me was

"When you badger your friends to give you the keys so you can come back this morning to get the shot (similar beautiful day today), don't forget to put the memory card back in your bloody camera, or carry a spare."

Grr. :mad:

Let's have a poll on "how stupid do I feel right now?"

trishw78

Thoie wrote: »

Of course, the one piece of advice no-one gave me was

"When you badger your friends to give you the keys so you can come back this morning to get the shot (similar beautiful day today), don't forget to put the memory card back in your bloody camera, or carry a spare."

Grr. :mad:

Let's have a poll on "how stupid do I feel right now?"

or Why not carry the camera with you at all times I've recently started doing this just in case I see a morning like the one we just had

Thoie

trishw78 wrote: »

or Why not carry the camera with you at all times I've recently started doing this just in case I see a morning like the one we just had

I keep thinking about that, and keep not doing it for a few reasons

1. I normally have a handbag with me, and handbag + camera+ other bits of kits + whatever else I'm carrying that day gets very awkward
2. I'm too old for the backpack/messenger bag look on a daily basis
3. If I leave the camera in my car I'm worried about damp/cold
4. If I leave the camera in my car I'm immediately quadrupling the value of the car
5. I have a policy when walking alone at night of not being a target. Obvious camera over shoulder might (or might not) draw attention.

How do the rest of you carry your cameras all the time?