How to stop the sun making your images white.

[Dannbodge]

Hello.

I went to the cotswolds on holiday last week and went to the wildlife park and some farms while i was there.
Because the weather was really sunny lots of the pictures i had taken have had the highlights go really white and ruin the pictures.
How can i stop this happening?
Will some filters of some sort help?

I was using my G1 with the 45-200mm lens.
I was shooting with the sun behind me where i could but it didn't really help.

I would appreciate some help as i really don't know what to do.

Thanks
dann

 

[tdodd]

The sun and bright highlights should be no problem at all, and well within the abilities of the camera to expose correctly. The question is - Why did it fail?".

I'm not familiar with your particular camera, but if you could post a representative image with EXIF data included it might help diagnosis. Filters can sometime help, but they need to be specifically chosen to meet the exact circumstances. Without seeing one shot at least, preferably more, it is impossible to say what you might have needed.

Just as an example, here is a shot taken in bright, sunny conditions. There is no problem with the highlights at all, and this was shot without filters. This is unedited.