I photographed this temple in Mingun, Burma under the harshest of lighting conditions. Still, I wanted to get the shot of the novice monk having fun jumping on the undulating shapes and I had no choice as to the light. I knew I'd have some post-processing to do in mitigating, as much as I could, the dark shadows. But the real challenge here was the exposure beause the white-washed temple was blindingly bright. Since meters are programmed to understand middle gray, or middle toned, subjects, the picture was going to be predictably dark if I made no compensation. This would happen because the meter wants to make the white temple middle toned which would underexpose the picture. Therefore, I had to use the exposure compensation feature in the camera to overexpose by 1 1/3 f/stops. My settings for this picture were 1/500, f/22, and 400 ISO. I used such a small lens aperture to make sure I had enough depth of field from from front to rear. I wanted the sky as sharp as the foreground.
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