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Newbie here. I took some photos on vacation while it was very overcast - in the future is there a way to make my photos look better, or is it best to accept the gra/white as part of the environment?
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>> Anonymous
spotmeter/hdr.
just don't overdo it please x
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>258987
>>258989
These won't work with an overcast sky. There's no blue sky at all, so polarizer won't do much, and HDR will just make the bright white overcast sky a dull gray overcast sky.

Best advice is just to not take pictures that have the sky in them on days like that. Or just photoshop in some fake blue.
>> celotil !AN26.8FkH6
>>258990

Actually, I've noticed that even if a polariser can't really do anything for the sky being overcast, it can cut down on that annoying "glare" that seems to dominate the picture, just rotate the polariser until the sky seems to "fit in better" to the picture.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>258998
Interesting. I'll have to try that.
>> Anonymous
even if its overcast, if the clouds have some definition to them then the polirizer will increase this definition. assuming that its not that shitty high cloud thats like a white blanket it should look a bit better.

the soft lighting of overcast days isn't very good for landscapes because it really flattens the image, but its pretty good for portraiture because it acts like a gigantic light box.