[Pic] Thoroughly blown out highlights

[eustacetilley]

wowzer wrote:
Given the extreme background, I would have metered to the bright background and use fill flash for the cactus. If you cannot get that level of control, then meter to the sky and take the picture and fix it in photoshop.

With blown out details, you cannot recover. With software these days, you can probably pull out details of a dark image. GL.

The problem with that, is the effect that I think he wished:
"I wanted the fruit to "glow"."
I interpret that to mean that he wanted some transmitted light. (Angles of refraction are unimportant.)

Stopping down and using a fill flash would kill any light transmitted through the Cactus.
Also, I'm not sure, thinking on it, that a Polarizing Filter would help much, with the sky so close to the Sun.
For most purposes, the light of the Sun and the sky immediately surrounding it are unpolarized.

Eustace