I photographed this Jacaranda tree in Windhoek, Namibia, and the sky was very bright. It was virtually white. Had I simply taken a picture of it and let the meter take a normal reading, the picture would be significantly underexposed. The white sky would adversely affect the meter reading because all meters are programmed to look at every scene and subject as middle gray. It would assume, therefore, that this scene was middle toned or middle gray, and therefore the exposure would reflect that. In other words, the picture would look middle gray. But the sky was white, not gray.
To handle this tricky exposure situation, I had to use the exposure compensation feature on the camera. I used + 1 2/3 exposure adjustment, and that gave me what you see here.
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