brian night

Hi,

I am not sure where I make the mistake and I hope there is someone

who can help me in here. I have a Canon 20D with a 17-85 IS lens,

and I like to take nature photos. I was in Turkey couple of weeks

ago and I visited very beautiful villages on the southwestern part

of Turkey. I was taking pictures in a small town called Old Datca

and that?s when I had this problem. I was trying to take a picture

of the streets of this old town, however the sky in the background

looks very bright. I tried to reduce the exposure compensation to

capture the blue sky as well, however this time the street looked

very dark. In fact anytime I try to take a picture on the shadow in

a sunny day, the background is always overexposed. How could I

capture both adequately lighted foreground and not overexposed blue

sky background at the same time? Thanks a lot.