How To Expose Your Subject Without Blowing Out Your Sky

A Lesson On Exposure: Landscape, Sky, and Subject

In order to expose all three elements of your photo you are going to want to add a light source. Sometimes this means using a reflector, sometimes it means using a speed light or other light source.

Here you can see that without an additional light source, I was able to expose the sky, but at the expense of a dark subject.

Here my subject is better exposed, but the sky and landscape are a little blown out.

Here, with the help of an additional light source, I was able to expose the subject, the landscape, and the sky. All at the same time!

Here are a few I did using a different subject.

You always end up with a few bloopers and I loved this one. I caught him mid-laugh.

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