TPC Sawgrass and a question

[Golf4food]

Here are a few of the nicer photos I took this past week at the TPC @ Sawgrass during the Tuesday practice round (cameras are only allowed during practice rounds...)

Also, a question: it seems that the skies in a lot of my photos are overexposed and washed out. Any suggestions on correcting that while still getting in enough light for the rest of the images (the non-sky portions).

Agapanthus flowers in front of the clubhouse:

A side view of the flag and bulkhead on the 4th green:

The sun rising behind a stately oak tree covered in spanish moss:

A great egret soaring past on the wind. It hopped out of a tree nearby and flew right past me, not time to change any settings so it isn't as crisp as I would have liked for capturing it in mid flight:

The famous 17th hole island green:

Lastly, a full view of the gorgeous clubhouse. Absolutely beautiful building all around:

Any comments, critiques, or suggestions welcome!

ETA: Here is one where the sky turned out nearly white but the rest of the image was a bit dark. Sun was to the left, lens hood was on - how can I compensate for the brightness in a clear sky like this?

 

[Suburbanmom]

I think your shots are great and extremely clear and crisp. Post the water ones on our Assignment of the Week: Reflections thread. I really like the 17th hole.

 

[Master Mason]

for your blown out sky question, the answer would be either a circular polorizer or a graduated ND filter, or take and exposure with the sky metered and another with the building metered and combining them in PP.

 

[Golf4food]

Suburbanmom - thanks for the kind comments. I have added a few reflective photos to the thread you listed (I hadn't been paying close attention, thanks for pointing it out).

Master Mason - graduated ND sounds like it would do the trick and I've been wanting a circular polarizer for some time, I just keep having other things come up and fail to get them. Maybe the exposure problems have started to annoy me enough where I'll bite the bullet and finally get a nice set of filters.