Taking pictures in the woods.

Somehow it seems that pictures taken in the woods have a tendency to look slightly overexposed and washed out. This pictures is taken with an inexpensive Fuji camera, that usually gives strong and well saturated colors. especially grass looks very green. In this picture the green leave in the center is much stronger and saturated.

Yep. That's because the camera's light meter tries to average the whole scene to middle (18%) gray, and that's not how a scene in the woods really looks.

The solution is to dial in -2/3 to -1 stop of exposure compensation, or shoot in manual and set the meter pointer to the left by that much.

Don't know if your Fuji has exposure compensation, though.

You can adjust the brightness and saturation in post processing, too...

-js

Yes i know that the contrast can be high on this type of scenery (not so much in this picture), but even accurate measuring of incoming light showes the same tendency and even bracketing doesn't solve the problem (it can help). It's like the CMOS is over sensitive to UV or something. I can not see the same with analog film.

I didn't mean that the contrast is high (although it can be). I meant that the camera's choice of exposure level (brightness) is too high and you have to override the camera's choice to make it look like it really looks to the eye.

See what I mean?

-js