Hi All
I'm finding that often when taking shots with my DSLR, even though the sky is blue, when I take the photo it appears white! I think it may have something to do with the point of focus. Here is an example of what I'm talking about.
In this photo, the subject and focus point is the boat. You can see from the reflection in the water, that the sky was blue that day, but as you can see, it appears white in the photo. Is it over exposed? If I take a picture and focus on the sky itself, then it is correctly shown in the photo in blue. But as you know, when taking shots like these, you cant focus on the sky, you have to focus on the subject (the boat, in this case).
I understand that there are ways of fixing this in photoshop (which i still have to learn), but I was wondering if there was something I can do on the camera itself when shooting to fix this, or at least give it a hint of blue so that it's just a case of increasing the saturation of the sky in photoshop, rather than spending more time replacing the sky completely. Possibly the aperture, white balance or metering could help?
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as it's really frustrating me and in some cases, spoiling my shots
