(02 Sep 2015, 9:43 pm)BusLoverMum wrote The photos that are dark are quite clearly taken when the day is dark - I'm assuming your photos of the 6 were taken this afternoon (dismal)rather than this morning (a bright autumnal morning). Getting the exposure right when you're tryng to capture a moving bus on a dark day isn't easy, anyhow.These were taken between 1530 and 1600 and these were also between some rain showers, some heavy. They have come out darker than it actually was at the time. When I uploaded them I thought they looked okay but when I uploaded them and I viewed them on my phone on the Flickr app I decided that I wasn't happy with it but was too late and I have no access to the laptop till tomorrow now to make any alterations. It has just how they came out with what setting I chose and I had to run to catch the photo of the 6 branded Pulsar and the same story for the 23 branded StreetLite on the 43 so didn't have time to think about settings and I am still trying to learn the settings and which is the best to use at what time.
And I know you worry about editing photos after they're taken, but lifting the brightness a tiny bit before uploading doesn't really do a lot different than fiddling with your camera to do the same - it's all done digitally, even if not in the exact same way.
If you can treat it as a project to play about with your camera settings, aware that you're going to get some duff pics regardless, what you do get on darker days that you can easily lose in bright summer sunlight is really rich, saturated colour. That, in itself, makes it work persisting, particularly when your subject tends to be colourful, anyhow.
I may upload another photo of 1528 tomorrow which is brighter.