Colours never bright enough in woodland shots

[Jason Green]

Badgerwatcher; try changing the White Balance on your camera to Shade or equivalent, or shoot in RAW if possible then change it afterwards in your editing program. Good luck!

What about when your problem is insects? The times I'm away from a copiced area and see something. I point the camera down to a leaf, take the photo and see the insect - moderately blurred. I've tried kicking the ISO up to 400 and reducing the EC - to no real avail.

The smaller the insect, the worse the resultant photo! Tips please!

[Ed Tyler]

Badgerwatcher,

Try to avoid photographing woodland scenes on sunny days. The light and dark contrast will play havoc with the camera and metering.

Wait for either an overcast day or until the sun has at least been hidden behind a cloud.

Its always better to underexpose a photo than to overexpose, in post processing you can recover the detail of an underexposed image, but once the detail is lost due to overexposure its gone for ever !!!!!

I agree with posting a few images so we can see the problem and help out a little more.

Personally I'm not so sure if filters will help any, they will slow down the camera to a point where a tripod will be required. Remember a Polarizer will seriously reduce the light entering the camera, and it may not even help the colours depending upon the direction of the light.

Let us know how you get on

Ed