The first shot is pretty well exposed. Cameras don't have as high a dynamic rage as the human eye. So you either expose for the background or expose for the subject (depending on the effect you want ie: siloutte) or you average it out (or be clever and do a HRD merger in PS :] ).
If you are doing a portrait try using the spot meter on the subjects face (on a bright part, but not a highlight) or center weighted and then expose of that. Matrix is great for a whole scene, but it would want to focus on a single subject it's not always the best mode.
If you look at the larger size (and that is still half of the original) the colour in the face starts to look a little blotchy, with false hues creeping in.
(definitely pigeons, I thought I remembered what I might have tagged the post with, so it was actually pretty easy to find. I may have made similar claims about bees at some point, but those were in the early, heady, rash days of my photography infancy.)
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The first shot is pretty well exposed. Cameras don't have as high a dynamic rage as the human eye. So you either expose for the background or expose for the subject (depending on the effect you want ie: siloutte) or you average it out (or be clever and do a HRD merger in PS :] ).
If you are doing a portrait try using the spot meter on the subjects face (on a bright part, but not a highlight) or center weighted and then expose of that. Matrix is great for a whole scene, but it would want to focus on a single subject it's not always the best mode.
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(definitely pigeons, I thought I remembered what I might have tagged the post with, so it was actually pretty easy to find. I may have made similar claims about bees at some point, but those were in the early, heady, rash days of my photography infancy.)
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