I recently took a photograph of a field on a relatively bright day using print film - Fuji Superia 200. I was shooting with the sun to my right hand-side, with a 28-105 USM II, no hood (yet), at around 35mm on my EOS 30/Elan 7E. I used Av mode, and selected an aperture around f/11 for depth of field. The landscape filled around 3/5 of the frame, with the sky filling the rest. I used evaluative metering, and the central focus point was on the landscape area. I also used a skylight filter. When I received my developed photo's the sky was totally white, hazy, and over exposed, when I remember it being blue and slightly cloudy, while the landscape in the photo was perfectly exposed.

What could I have done to get a better balance?

I have since bought a circular polariser, would this have helped, or should I have done something completely different?

-- Sam Hassall (samhassall@aol.com), August 30, 2001

Answers

Sam,

It looks like you posted this question both in the Camera Equipment forum & the EOS FAQ Forum. I already posted my reply there. :-)

-- Hung James Wasson (HJWasson@aol.com), August 30, 2001.