Exactly. So why are you and Sirius jumping on Alan for doing exactly that? You've both been telling him the sky doesn't matter-- Sirius goes as far as to say if you meter the sky, bad things happen.
I'm just as confused as Alan.
I was NOT 'jumping on Alan'...I was merely remarking that what he wishes to do with a shot (keep sarturated skies) is not what another photographer with different goals for exposure (like a portrait shooter) can do in the same light. Pointing out differences is NOT at all being critical about what he wishes to do, merely stating different goals exist...the world is filled with many different goals!
I have posted -- more than once in this very thread -- that the brightness difference of the sky (vs. Sunny 16 rule of thumb) sometimes
makes it possible and sometimes
makes it not possible to shoot and keep saturated skies. So sometimes folks like Alan can achieve their wishes to keep saturated skies, and sometimes it is not possible (unless you brightened the scene with supplemental lighting to make the scene as bright as the sky). The goals that even the same photographer can change to be situational...I shoot landscapes (and want pretty skies) and I shoot landscapes (and do not care are pretty skies --
in fact, there are occasions when I have
deliberately chosen to blow out the sky when shooting a portrait because a blown out sky less distracts the viewer's attention away from the portrait sitter's face!.