Quote Originally Posted by Mad Aussie View Post
Hard to add much to TI's critique here.

I agree with the railing ... moving forward to eliminate those would have been a good idea.

Without decent post processing skills you are going to struggle to right a shot like this technically great because of the dynamic range (bright whites battling with dark darks) so the best advice for now is to shoot slightly darker than normal to retain more detail in the white areas and then lighten the dark areas later.
I have the orignal .nef around here somewhere, i'll try what I can.

I was simply using the multimeter Nikon exposure.