Help please

[s2u.black]

You know those lovely sights you see when entering a shady lane with the sunlight streaming through the trees? How do you photograph them without them either being dark or overblown?
This is the kind of poor results I seem to get

[peeperita]

i have trouble with contrasted secenes like this one....because it is hard for me to remember that my eye sees a little differently than my canon does....

if those dark foreground objects are close enough, try using your flash as a fill light......

peeper

[windrider86]

Yes Peeperita hit it right on the money ir you could take several different shots with different exposures and combine them.

[s2u.black]

Thanks folks two good ideas there. I did play with the metering as per a recent tutorial and got a slightly better result but it seems some scenes either look great to us but not the camera or vice versa.
Combining the three differing exposures produces a kind of HDR picture am I right?

[Saralonde]

What time of day did you take this? Was the sun at your back? I was just wondering if you had bright sunlight bleaching out some trees and creating deep shadows with others. It may have causes your camera to have trouble adjusting to the extreme differences in light. Combining the 3 exposures may help you get some detail in the light areas.

[s2u.black]

Originally Posted by Saralonde

What time of day did you take this? Was the sun at your back? .

It was mid morning sun was quite high and behind me.