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Hello,
Can I ask for your advice, please?

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How can I avoid this in the future?

I have a 50d with 24-105 and I used a Hoya Pro1 MC UV(0). The picture was taken in Av mode and the ISO was 100, AWB. Do I need to decrease the exposure compensation?

I've just bought a CPL filter so should I use it? TBH, I've never done before.
 
It looks to me as if the camera has metered for the interior of the arcade... perhaps switching to spot metering will overcome that, but I'd wait on someone who knows more baout it before taking that advice.
 
Yeah spot or centre weighted would have worked better here.
 
The camera has seen a large dark area that has lead it to over-expose the main subject, which is in bright light. Simple as.

There are various ways of overcoming it. Spot metering off the grey top would have been perfect, but rather easier is just to dial in minus exposure compensation. Maybe one stop.

With experience, you get to read scenes like this and simply compensate before you shoot, but it only takes a second to review on the rear screen. With blinkies enabled (highlight alert in menu) it would immediately show the over-exposed areas. So you make a quick assessment, compensate, and re-shoot.

You could practise by finding a similar scene and trying different metering modes, see what effect different levels of compensation have, then log that knowledge for next time.

Filters won't help.
 
My method would have been to use exp lock on the scene outside. I use bbf and the shutter half press to lock exposure, it adds a split second to the shooting., and gives very consistent results.

But exp comp. manual with a reading from outside and spot metering would all work.

There's no right or wrong, just find a method that suits you.
 
Not really answering the question from a technical point of view but as an alternative you could have taken shot from a different position to get more of the dark area behing the subjects and lose the white area. The white area is not adding anything, in fact it is probably detracting.
 
ernesto said:
Not really answering the question from a technical point of view but as an alternative you could have taken shot from a different position to get more of the dark area behing the subjects and lose the white area. The white area is not adding anything, in fact it is probably detracting.
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...or perhaps ask her to move to the other side of the youngster where your background would be a plain wall rather than a dark cave. Or do both. If you have time, always take another shot.

Edit to add: If that's the only one you have, you can probably pull the exposure back a bit in post production.
 
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Yeah, if you have the Raw file, the highlights might just about be rescuable - it'd certainly look a lot better.

Biggest problem with JPEGs is they usually chop off about one stop of the brightest highlights.
 
jon ryan said:
...or perhaps ask her to move to the other side of the youngster where your background would be a plain wall rather than a dark cave. Or do both. If you have time, always take another shot.
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Good point, and although the cave would not be dark as there would be no large white area to throw the exposure the background may be a bit busy!

On second thoughts, could you just lift up the train and move it to a nicer spot :)
 
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