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I was taking some trials photos today, sunny day but under trees, the camera Nikon d60 said it was to dark.
I couldnt use a flash as this would distract the riders and the photos i took came out very dark (obviously)

Anyone put me in the right direction
 
What kind of metering were you using, can you post examples?
 
Im a bit new to photography with the Nikon. always used basic camers before

I tried Auto but always tried to use the flash on the camera (bit to small).

Used differing shutter speeds made no difference.

Sorry bit thick but willing to learn
 
Off-camera flash could be an option, since you can place the flash well out of vision of the rider, and will give you much nicer lighting.

Will need a little investment though :)
 
I would guess you were using average or eval metering, this is where the camera takes a reading from the entire scene and works out what it thinks will be the correct exposure.

This normally works ok but in hi contrast situations (from your description you were shooting with bright sunlight and dark objects) the camera will struggle. It is quite difficult to correctly expose very light and very dark in the same exposure, one method is to take a shot metered for the dark and one for the (usually the sky) and blend in photoshop for example.

In this situation i would put my camera to spot metering in manual mode, meter for the subject i wanted to expose correctly be it a horse, building, car, tree etc and take the shot and adjust as necessary. I hope this helps.
 
Upload the photo to your gallery, in the quick reply box there is row of buttons above, second from right says insert image when mouse is hovered above, click that, paste in the link to your uploaded image.
 
showphoto.php


Example of to dark under trees
 
Laughing to myself isnt this confusing ? dont know why the pics arnt shown ?

If you look at my gallery you can see 2 photos both under trees
 
Here you go:

DSC_00061.jpg


I think the advice in my previous reply will help, it is very underexposed.
 
Do you know how to get at the exif data?
 
if you took them in raw format, you could of messed around a bit more withthe photo after.
 
Thanks to everyone. I will be back think im here to stay !
 
scrappington said:
what is exif data then
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Wikipedia: Exif

You can see the EXIF data when you're editing the photo, and some ways of saving the picture preserve it for others to see using programs like Opanda IExif. That can be enormously useful if we're trying to help you work out what went wrong. If you're using Photoshop, for example, save-as-jpeg keeps the EXIF data in the picture, but save-for-web removes it.
 
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