T3i overexposure

[Photo2011]

I have a Canon Rebel EOS T3i. 

One of my favorite times of day to shoot photos is at dusk, because this camera performs beautifully on auto settings. HOWEVER, shooting during normal daylight hours is never successful. Since the day I got the camera, photos always looks overexposed.-Especially the sky in landscape photos.

Really frustrated and don't know if it is the camera itself or the lens. It came with canon zoom lens ef-s 18-55mm. I bought the camera brand new years ago, so this post is loooooong overdue. I'm tired of coming home from vacations only to discover that all of the photos I took are washed out.

[stevet1]

Photo2011,

As I understand it, cell phones these days apply some measure of HDR to their camera. There's software in there that helps to balance out that High Dynamic Range 5hat I talked about earlier.

Your T3i doesn't have that.

One thing you might try is using the Landscape Mode on your Mode dial.

Another option when confronted with a mixture of light and dark might be to choose the Monochtome setting in your Picture Styles, and Shoot in black and white.

There were a couple of pictures that you provided that would make excellent B&W photos, like the third one.

Steve Thomas

[jrhoffman75]

Your camera can alert you when areas of the image will be overexposed.