I decided to take a couple of different kinds of pictures today.
It was a difficult day for shooting. The sky was filled with a lot of milky white clouds, and sort of over cast. I have read that in Evaluative metering, if there is a lot of white back ground light, it can sort of overwhelm the camera's sensor and sort of "take over".
You might wind up with a picture that looks like this:
which is okay, but I decided to try a minimalist approach and go with the milky white and play off it, so I decided to spot meter off the tree and deliberately let everything else get blown out.
This was my result:
My camera also has a SCN mode called HDR backlight Control. You can use it when you have a stronlgy backlit scene. It takes three shots in quick succession and blends the exposures into one shot.
Here's the standard picture with Evaluative metering:
And here's the same picture taken in that HDR Backlight Control Scene mode:
Steve Thomas