Photos in the sun

Try stopping down -2/3 ...or use an incident light meter.

If you've got a lot of green in the shot (especially in high sun I find), the green channel can hit the end stops and there's no recovering it, not even in RAW.

Overexposure tends to make colours more pastel, tending towards high key grey scale (washed out)
Underexposure tends to enrichen colours (saturate)

...but if the sun is directly hitting your front element, especially if you've got a cheap UV filter...you can get a big reduction in contrast and maybe lens flare. Stand in shade or get a mate to cast a shadow onto your front element and buy a pro UV filter.

Polarising filters might help you, but you'll lose stops.

Hope this helps...but yes, it would be good to see some examples

Steve
 
try to avoid conflicts with the sun unless its a dawn or sunset
 
Its a pain. Had to shoot a formal photo yesterday at 12:20. The sun was slightly behind the group at about one o'clock position from where I was. Had to be at that time, (VIP in shot), and place coz thats what was required. The building behind the group is in shadow, the right side of faces are overlit, the left sides in shadow. Always shoot in RAW so with judicious use of exposure sliders its "fit for purpose".
Would have been so much easier if it was overcast :0 , still, mustn't complain about the sun being out!!
Webby
 
I shot this at 1/500sec, f16. isolating the sun from the scene whilst retaing detail.
try something like that Snapsnap and see how it comes out next time.

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