How to Deal with Clipped Highlights
Spoiler Alert: you’re going to darken your exposure a bit to recover those clipped highlights, and depending on your shooting mode (I recommend aperture priority for landscapes), you’ll adjust it differently. Remember, in aperture priority mode, you set the f-stop and your camera chooses what it thinks is the right shutter speed for the scene. But, sometimes it’s wrong, and you wind up with clipped highlights. If that happens, you’re going to override what the camera thinks is the correct exposure by using an awesome, must-know feature for landscape photography called “exposure compensation.” All that means ...
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