Those blue Texas skys ...

[Tim359]

Arent they just so awesome? I get really excited when Im out and I see an amazing landscape with a bright blue sky and big white fluffy clouds , I'll whoop out my ol' shutter rig and start taking what Im sure will be the most beautiful landscape photos ever, only to find later when I get home that my sky is so washed out you cant even tell where the clouds start .... everything is just bright white.

Ive tried all that I can think of to resolve this problem but I still havent figured it out . The only time Im able to render a blue sky is in PP. What am I doing wrong?

[Cabe]

it's probably a combination of glare and haze.

try getting yourself a polarizing filter

http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Polarizer

and

http://luminous-landscape.com/tutori...larizers.shtml

can explain why better than I can.

[n5kc]

Set your speed real fast and then bracket down until you get a shot you like. Just to give you an idea, here is a shot from Medina Texas at the Medina River done yesterday. The exposure and such should give you an idea. We shot about 6 frames at different settings starting around 1/500 of a second.



Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

[Egger]

Maybe the sky is just over exposed?
It may help to use the partial metering setting on the camera and measure on the sky before composing the shot. However, the landscape itself will be darker this way...

[westx]

One thing is to meter off the sky recompse and then take the shoot. Also when you recompose and focus don't worry about what the meter says since you are trying to keep the sky from blowing out. Also depending on the lens you are using, use hyperfocus to get everything in focus from half the hyperfocus distance to infinity.