What should I have done?

[Karenp]

I was at a Christmas collection for our charity yesterday.

It was a fabulous, sunny day and I got a lot of pics which which I was happy. Around 3pm the sun started to get low and was still very dazzling. I had gone inside the store to take a pic of Isaac. The sun was hitting his coat and it was dazzling. My shot of him is accurate in that he did look very bleached out in the sunshine. But it doesn't make for a good pic does it? 

How should I have tackled this? My settings were f5.6 1/40 with an ISO of 200. 

I know that I should have used ISO 100 which may have helped. Should I have closed down the aperture? What else could I have done?

Your advice would be welcomed please.

[ChrisLumix]

The only thing you could have done is to expose for the sunlit part of his coat by metering off it - that would have massively underexposed the rest, but you can always bring detail out of shadows using a half-decent image editor, even iPhoto.

 

It's a very tricky lighting situation, would flummox many of us, much of the time.

[Leon]

1/40th is quite slow for daytime.... going to be quite hard to advise if we were not there to view the lighting conditions Karen

[Karenp]

The only thing you could have done is to expose for the sunlit part of his coat by metering off it - that would have massively underexposed the rest, but you can always bring detail out of shadows using a half-decent image editor, even iPhoto.

 

It's a very tricky lighting situation, would flummox many of us, much of the time.

|Thank You Leon.

I fiddled about with one of the other pics using Pixlr, but I wasn't taken with the end result

[colinb]

spot meter the subject, shoot in Raw and 'develop' the exposure / high lights, shadows, whites, etc afterwards.