clipped from www.ephotozine.com Improve your landscapes with digital-imaging How to improve your under exposed landscapes using digital imaging software. With landscape photography there's always a chance that the sky will fool your camera's meter, making the picture dark. In this example the meter reading for the sky was 1/250sec at f/11 and the ground was 1/15sec at f/11. The digital camera captured the photograph at 1/90sec at f/13.5, weighting the exposure more towards the bright sky. If it had exposed for the ground the sky would have been disappointing. Similarly if you adjusted the brightness and contrast (Image>Adjust> Brightness/Contrast) you could make the ground appear brighter, but look what happens to our lovely moody sky. The way round this is to make a selection of the local area that you want to adjust, in this case the tree and ground, and apply any correction to just the selected area.