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    Default need some tips

    just started with a nikon d3100. having a lot of trouble dealing with the snow and backgrounds coming up way to bright and making the picture and subject look off. any tips or tricks to help rid of that?6057CFAC-6FC3-4F71-B589-89EB15433BB9.jpgE90460E1-BD7D-4288-AE03-978F10F9F4AD.jpgDE6F6686-93B3-46D1-970F-BA6D110CEF10.jpg
    i wish a buck was still silver, back when the country was strong

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    What’s your address? I’ll mail you a book that covers it all.


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    i got a tip....

    gimme my camera back

    just kidding.
    have fun.
    hurry home. I'm tired of dealing w your dad.
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    You usually have to over expose, i.e. use a slightly longer shutter speed or wider aperture than the light meter suggests if there is a bright background. You can take extra shots on either side of the recommended exposure for every shot. Some digital cameras have a setting that does this automatically.

    Some cameras also have settings that let you more closely define what part of the frame is being metered.

    You can also zoom in tight on the subject, read the recommended shutter speed, then zoom out and use that speed for the wider shot.

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    The dark horse is properly exposed by that makes the snow and sky overexposed to the point they are "blown out". I'm guessing you had spot or centered weighted metering turned on. Digital cameras' view screens will usually show blown out whites and blacks as flashing items - people call them "blinkies".

    So, blown out parts of an image means that there is no information in the blown out regions so it can not be fixed in a photo processing software. Turn on full frame metering and check that your histograms aren't pushed up against either the left or right boundary.

    With this much contrast, you might even have to go to a 3 or 5 shot group - something like -1EV, 0 and +1EV and combine them in Photoshop - this is also called HDR. More recent cameras have HDR built-in.

    Neutral density and or polarizing filters can help a lot in a snowfield.
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    hey david, I hope you can understand a single word rubberhead said bc he's probably right.

    its gonna mean you gotta learn all them buttons. its probably stuck on "AUTO" since i had it for years.

    (rh--that's an older model. not sure if that matters in terms of all them damn buttons)
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    thanks for the tips yall

    doc hope ya have some deer sausage waitin in the fridge for me when i come home
    i wish a buck was still silver, back when the country was strong

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    Put a barn behind the horse then takes its picture. Bam.

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    And nothing says “rookie like the date stamp. Get rid of that while you’re playing with the buttons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
    Put a barn behind the horse then takes its picture. Bam.
    Wouldn't it be easier to put the horse in front of the barn?

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    Now that you mention it….

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
    Put a barn behind the horse then takes its picture. Bam.
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    or a bull…
    i wish a buck was still silver, back when the country was strong

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