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Hey! I took a couple of photos at dusk and I'm having trouble with

the exposure. The thing is that if I focus on the subject, the sky

comes out over-exposed whereas if I focus on the sky, the subjects

come out quite dark. I've tried exposure compensation, but it doesn't

help that much. I also tried flash, but the subjects were too far

away.

Any ideas?

I'm attaching a couple of pictures so that you can see whatI'm

talking about.

Thanks in advance for your input.

First of all thanks so much for your interest. I truly appreciate any help.

In response to Mr. Reichenbach, as a matter of fact I was noticing the sky today and I thought the same thing. It truly did look a little flat to me. However I do agree that it does look over exposed.

Regarding Mr. Smithers' recommendations, I forgot to mention that I'm a beginner and I don't have the whole photographic jargon down yet. If it's not too much bother, what do you mean by ev correction and cp meter? Do you use coolpix 5700? When you mention "array of corrections for various conditions" is this on the spot? or should I pre-establish them in my different users (i.e. 1,2,3)?

I'm sorry for all the questions, I appreciate the help.

Regards.

Took more photos on Sunday thus I have more questions on the

subject :) See topic: <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-

fetch-msg?msg_id=005Yn1"><b>Metering (Nikon Coolpix 5700)</b></a> for

previous questions.

<p>Here you can see another action picture. It was around 6:45 with

the sun at about a 45 degree angle, maybe a bit lower. My problem

this time is with the sky. It looks terribly flat to me. Am I doing

something wrong?

<p>I truly appreciate your help!

Took more photos on Sunday thus I have more questions on the subject :)

Here you can see another action picture. It was around 6:45 with the sun at about a 45 degree angle, maybe a bit lower. My problem this time is with the sky. It looks terribly flat to me. Am I doing something wrong?

I truly appreciate your help!

Sorry about the size of my picture, I was afraid it was going to be too big for what photo.net allows and it seems I over did it. :(

I took a series of shots and not all of them were dead center.

The problems that I get when I use shutter priority is that my pictures are often too dark if I don't use flash, and I certainly did not want to use flash in these photos.

I do have saturation in it's default position.

I'll try to upload a larger version so that you can take a look. I appreciate all your input.<div></div>

Hey William, thanks so much for your response!

I just got some feedback on a couple of photos I took on Sunday. It was late afternoon and it was an overcast day. It was at a soccer field and the subjects had orange shirts. The thing is that this person told me that the "orange is blazing as compared to the muted greens". Is this a problem? What am I doing wrong?

I was working with aperture priority so the camera would vary the shutter speed accordingly.

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

I truly appreciate your response.

So your saying that in those cases where you have an "extreme" like the bike seat and the snow, matrix metering will do fine? The what's the point in having other kinds of metering? What should I use them for?

Thanks again!

I'm a total beginner in photography, and I just got a Nikon Coolpix

5700. The thing is that I've read several articles and books on

metering and I'm kind of confused.

The camera has a built in meter and currently I have it set to matrix

mode. I've read you should meter off of a mid-toned subject and base

your settings on this. What does this mean? Should I use matrix

metering, point the camera towards a midtoned subject, take note of

the readings and then, when I'm all set to take the picture, change

the new settings with the settings I took note of?

I'm sorry if this is a newbie question, but I'm really interested.

Thanks so much for your time and help. I truly appreciate it.