A beautiful, sunny, photograph-ruining day
December 29, 2008
On the 27th, the sun was out, and there was not a cloud in the sky. It was a beautiful day -- about 65 degrees -- and I was miserable. The worst thing in the world when shooting sports is harsh sun light. Especially when you are confined to one sideline and the players are back lit. Its not fun.
You end up with two choices. You can either meter for the background, like so:
or meter for the players, as I did here:
My suggestion is to expose for the players and in your raw photo options bring the exposure back down for the sky. The other thing you could do is expose for the background and then use a fill flash to expose the players, but that's almost impossible to do with action sports.
- Nate