This is kinda getting away from sunny 16, but with digital cameras in daylight, I find it better to not expose for the scene, but to expose for the brightest th

This is kinda getting away from sunny 16, but with digital cameras in daylight, I find it better to not expose for the scene, but to expose for the brightest thing on the scene: the sky. That will leave you with a camera image of a well exposed sky and puffy clounds, and a dim foreground or subject perhaps, but thats a non issue. You just shot in daylight at probably iso 200, that means you can import that raw file into Lightroom, and pull up the shadows and have that dim part of the image look fine, while preserving the sky. If you expose for the scene, you are probably going to blow out the sky. Once its overexposed like this, you can't just crank down the highlights in lightroom. The sensor just reads pure white light in this region; there isn't any information there like in the shadows. This is kinda the opposite to how you'd expose with a film camera. For film, its better to expose for the shadows. Too much light hitting the film emulsion doesn't matter, you can fix that when you image your prints by using less light, no information is lost with overexposed film (unless its REALLY overexposed e.g. opening the film door). If you underexpose something severely, then information is lost because not enough light hit the film emulsion to impart an image.