Is it time to move on from my T4i

Crotonmark wrote:

RedFox88 wrote:

Crotonmark wrote:

RedFox88 wrote:

Crotonmark wrote:

JPAlbert wrote:

OP:

Which lenses do you have?
Have you considered something like the EOS R (yes, full frame)?

50mm 1.8

thst is the only lens that could require 1/8000, but only if shooting at f/1.8 in bright sunlight. And don’t confuse needing faster shutter speed for not having the right direction of light (shooting into the sun)

tamron 17-50

canon 55-250

all crop lenses except the 50mm

But sometimes you do shoot toward the sun. I’ll shoot down a street to frame the beach. Sky blown out.

Sounds like you need to learn more about photography first. If you expose for areas in shadows, bright highlights will be over exposed. So needing 1/8000 over just 1/4000 is an extreme case

There is no other way to grab the shot. Or I’ll shoot down an alley or to get a building on the street

Expose to not blow out the highlights, and lighten the shadows with computer software

Maybe I don’t know much. Here’s a photography question.

If I’m shooting down an alley towards the sky how do I expose for the shadow areas and not the sky?

what do I physically need to do?

thanks

One thing you can try is do is to get in the habit of checking the histogram to set your exposure.   There are lots of videos on youtube if you are not familiar with using histograms.

If the far right side of the histogram spikes up that means that the photo will have blow out areas so you would want to reduce your exposure just to the point where the histogram curve ends just at the right edge.

You may end up with the far left side being all stacked up because there are black areas with no detail but in a photograph that can look OK since your eye i used to seeing black shadows.

You can also do more in photoshop to bring out some of the details from the black areas if you need to.  With blow out white areas there is little you can do to fix that.