Andre Labonte wrote:
1st, do yourself a favor and never ever go to KR's site. He is an idiot.
2nd, check your D-lighting setting. D-lighting can do this.
3rd, Those mountains are dark and will cause the meter to read low. Meter off the sky and fix exposure based on that.
4th, if you want to reduce your exposure issuse, learn to manual expose everything. Understand Exposure by Bryan Peterson is a great place to start.
1. Yes, sir!
2. I'm new to D-Lighting, but I prefer not to use it. It sounds to me like turning contrast down to make things easy, but inaccurate (not like the real thing I saw when I took the photo). The few times I tried it, I liked it better without. I'll try more, for sure.
3. You may be right, your explanation makes sense. Problem is that I will have to resort more and more to manual exposure.
James R wrote:
+1, except I no longer will comment on KR.
BTW, it took 20 secs to correct this photo in LR2.
On the same page I posted a corrected JPG that roughly looks like the real thing. Portraits with this overexposure problem are beyond repair, though.
By the way, my 70-300 vr does much worse in this regard than my 16-85, at same focal length, same subject, place and time. Is the 70-300 prone to flare? That's what it looks like in thes blown pictures.
G-W-N wrote:
There are several adjustments you can make if you are using the latest version of ViewNX. Click on the quick adjust tab on the bottom left hand side of your screen to open the quick adjust menu.
That's what happens when one doesn't read the manual... Thanks a lot, great tip.
I have the same problem with my D80. According to Ken Rockwell, the D80 meter system is "defective" and has been corrected in the D300 and D90. He also says leave the ADR on auto which you had off. I leave the exposure set to -0.7 all the time which helps a lot. Check out kenrockwell.com for more extensive info.
I agree, it looks like a defective meter system. The photo is clearly overexposed...
