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The problem you're talking about is dynamic range, and the fact that your camera's photo sensor doesn't have much of it. Dynamic range is the ability of a camera's photo sensor to accurately record extreme differences in light and dark regions in the same scene, and is also defined as the actual difference between the extreme light and dark. If you focus on darker regions in the scene highlights like the sky will be blown out. If you focus on light areas of the scene the dark areas will be way too dark. This happens with all cameras unfortunately, and only by creative photoshopping or moving on to a DSLR can get you better dynamic range (but still not great).
If you have PS CS2 (must be CS2), first do at least 5 shots of the same scene on a tripod, with exposure compensation dialed at -2/3, -1/3, 0, +1/3, +2/3 for each of the five shots. Then merge the five pictures with CS2 using the Merge to HDR function. Your camera will have exposure compensation, and you can do exposure bracketing but that only does +/- 1/3 and 0, not enough to make a good enough HDR merge.[/i]
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