If shooting JPGs that is maybe a good advice. I am shooting RAW and use some Programs (Lightroom and DxO PhotoLab5) for developing my shots. Know your camera gives hints how much to raise the deeps and lower the lights . If nothings is overexposed, i can recover the sky and the darker foreground. And some software can lower the HighIso noise. Real good.
Ok. I had practise years for dev a raw so to speak (Nikons CaptureNX..) What to do and when for what....There are books which described the usual workflow with a given program. That is my way to learn that. All other wo have two monitors, can use youtube....
Monitor is calibrated? Load a grayscale picture "full black to full white" and check if it displayed "all visible" on your monitor with your picture program. (Had that with an colleague who had "too bright pics". Next week he had a new monitor...)
I found some good videos, but I still didn't find the right tool for increasing the contrast and saturation of the trees to my liking, when the bright cloudy sky caused the photo to be underexposed by the camera.
When i have a similar shot. Filter down (masked sky in LR CC) the sky. Means sky and tree have 3fstop between. Then raise the global exposure and raise some deeps. Usual sky is like before but trees and deeps are lighter then. Well saturation is also to consider....
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And some software can lower the HighIso noise. Real good.
But that works mostly in RAW.
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