This is similar to my style and I struggled with metering sometimes when taking a bar/dark thing in daytime light. There are a few things you can do depending on how well you know your camera
If you can shoot in manual, there is a metering setting on your camera that you want to set to 'scene'. It looks to me like it is set to 'spot' which means that it is setting the white balance based on whatever you are focusing on. Since that is something dark, it thinks the image is dark and overexposed the rest.
If you don't shoot in manual but your camera has an AV mode, switch to it in situations like this as this is aperture priority and it might balance the light better.
If all you can do is a general light/dark adjusting, always err on slightly dark because you can fix underexposed but not over.
If you can't go back and try again, you could go back in here with a brush tool and white out the detail from the background up to before the second post. Then brighten the detail between the second and third so you look like you've got a fade going from left to right. This would work too!
Hope this is helpful! And, of course, if i got any of this mixed up, our friends here will set us striaght!
:)
PS I posted a series of bars in Black and White about 2 days ago. Check it out. One of them had similar issues and I chose the post editing mentioned above. The rest were shot with this settings adjusted and on the dark side.
Great eye Giulio! I love this rusty bar!!
This is similar to my style and I struggled with metering sometimes when taking a bar/dark thing in daytime light. There are a few things you can do depending on how well you know your camera
If you can shoot in manual, there is a metering setting on your camera that you want to set to 'scene'. It looks to me like it is set to 'spot' which means that it is setting the white balance based on whatever you are focusing on. Since that is something dark, it thinks the image is dark and overexposed the rest.
If you don't shoot in manual but your camera has an AV mode, switch to it in situations like this as this is aperture priority and it might balance the light better.
If all you can do is a general light/dark adjusting, always err on slightly dark because you can fix underexposed but not over.
If you can't go back and try again, you could go back in here with a brush tool and white out the detail from the background up to before the second post. Then brighten the detail between the second and third so you look like you've got a fade going from left to right. This would work too!
Hope this is helpful! And, of course, if i got any of this mixed up, our friends here will set us striaght!
:)
PS I posted a series of bars in Black and White about 2 days ago. Check it out. One of them had similar issues and I chose the post editing mentioned above. The rest were shot with this settings adjusted and on the dark side.