Just a quick tip!
Balancing window light when it is sunny outside. The above photo is not balanced for the amount of light indoors and outside. Most cameras on auto, this will be the photo you will get. the windows will be all blown out and white. The photo below is after I balanced the light for the existing outdoor light.
the top photo with the women was balanced and you can see the trees outside and the water and marina. the bottom photo is not balanced. Not only are the windows all white, but the woman showing the table cloths, her hair is almost erased by too much light.
Solving this and balancing the light is quite simple.
1. turn your camera on and set it to shutter or aperture priority.
2. turn on your flash. many times with this much window light the flash will not want to flash, it is looking straight into a huge window with tons of light.
3. before you take the photo, toggle or turn your aperture or shutter speed dial until the image you see is darker and you can see out of the windows and see what is outside of the windows. If you are using aperture priority you will be moving your camera to a higher number such as 11,16,22... If you are using shutter priority, you will be moving your shutter speed to a bigger number such as 250, 500,800...
4. take the photo. you may have to make small adjustments to your exposure, but this should work :)
until later :) Johanna Peterson
THANK YOU!!! numerous times for this photo tip. I've had this proble, but need to play with the settings, to master this.
Posted by: SUE~ | October 18, 2009 at 07:48 AM