Too Bright please help ...

[poonamch]

Hi there ....
First of all i m regular reader of DPS ...and very immature on photography aspect ...but i try to understand the concepts....

so we went to the trip with kids ...it was a bright and sunny day ......i was trying to play with Aperture mode .....took a lot of pictures with Apertures like f/11 to f/32 .......tried to change shutter speeds at different points...my pictures all too bright .......my understanding was that if i m using F say f22 or even f32 picture should not be that bright ..i was trying to click landscape ...can this be ISO issue?....

My second question is ...how to take pic of people in landscape ....(for example ,..i want to take picture of my kids in front of half dome ......or once at night in front of stratosphere .....either my son was in focus or stratosphere ....)

i m sorry if questions look too trivial
thanks for reading ...... .

[Digidave]

Make sure your camera is not set to "Auto ISO". It kind of soundsa like it may be.

Smaller Aperture(larger f/number) will get more in focus.

[OsmosisStudios]

f/22 and f/32 are almost never going to be used, tbh. You shouldnt really go further than f/16, and even that is generally pushing it.

[mrdale]

If you can post an example with the EXIF data we can give you a more definitive answer to your problem.

[JF808]

I dont think auto ISO would boost cause the images to come out overexposed. I say check the exposure compensation. check the exif data, it'll tell you what your settings were.