I hate to tell you this, but from what I've read and learned so far... almost no form of camera metering is going to solve this particular problem.
This is a classical photography problem; those shots of the moon above houses at night? Are almost never taken easily. The moon, for instance, is so bright that if you shoot with conditions that make the houses visible, the moon will be an undifferentiated solid disc, with no features. Shoot in conditions that make the craters of the moon visible, and the houses will be far too dark. The way photographers used to solve this problem was with a gradiated polarizing filter; you'd have a polarizing filter with a clear half. Hold it up, block the moon with the polarizing bit (dropping it a stop or two) and leaving the houses behind the clear bit. Tada!
Now, you can try to work around this in digital. There are in-camera contrast tools that'll let you overexpose the picture and manually 'force' the contrast lower. You can turn the contrast down and tweak the brightness/exposure in a digital photography editing tool, to try and equalize the exposure somewhat. But there's really no magic guaranteed-to-work-in-all-cases solution to this in-camera, with any camera model that I'm aware of. It's simply one of the "interesting challenges" of photography!
I don't know if that helps at all...
|