Hi OSP,

Well, I've "run" into something I've never seen before. What in the world happened to the sky in this shot? Is this overexposure? It was shot at ISO 200, f/8 on aperature-priority and this image is SOOC.

Any advice you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help and I look forward to reading your responses. Be blessed!

what's wrong with it? the sky is overexposed but I don't see anything abnormal. maybe because it's too small to see what you can see when it's large?

Thanks jthrasher, I really appreciate it. OK, but how did that happen as according to my meter it was exposed correctly? Maybe I should have bumped my f-stop down or compensated by -2. It's just strange as this hasn't happened before with sky shots.

It depends on what metering mode you were using. From this pic most of the frame is filled with a dark subject. Therefore, the camera will try to expose for this more so than the sky. Therefore, the sky was overexposed. It looks like the foreground with shrubs is exposed properly.
If the camera had exposed only for the sky, most likely the house would have been very dark.

Only advise I can give: Try to underexpose the subject at -1.5 or -2.0 and use a TTL flash with no compensation to fill the foreground (house and garden).

Mario

You could also try an HDR technique.

dude, it's your white balance, (and a bit overexposed). Looks a tad cool to me, the AWB probably guessed Flourescent or something. The plants look a tad yellow, and the color is lost in the roof. Try adjusting just the Red, Green, and Blue Level sliders individually (instead of the composite RGB).

Also read "The Canyon Conundrum"

this is totally fixable with a bit of skillz...