I’m brand new to photography starting out on a really tight budget (£150 all my gear is from eBay so far) and your channel has taught me pretty much everything I know and has helped me get progressively better. I shoot on an old canon rebel xt with a 18-55mm lens and a 25-300mm lens.
I've gotta say though, you have a great starting point for your gear. I shot happily and successfully with a Rebel XTi for 10/11 years and still have it. I love its simplicity. You will learn to work within its ISO limits, learn to focus and recompose, etc . . . essential skills whatever gear you get later when you're ready to spend more.
Or use a reflector, off camera flash or a 2 shot bracket if the subject is still and your shutter speed is fast. You can do a sky replacement in photoshop or do an exposure blend. I've taken a lot of handheld shots like that.
This depends also on your iso as if you are on a base iso you inherently have the most stops of dynamic range, but if you move higher up or in between whole stops you start losing more stops cause they are lost to noise.
ETTR - expose to the right is what youre inplying but not directly saying. Pull up a histogram overlay and push everything as far right as you can before it starts clipping whites so you retain all the sky/bright information, but bring up the dark details as much as you can to reduce how grainy those areas will turn out after processing.
That’s the limitation of cameras with current technology. Either accept the reality choose one of the targets or edit on PS using AEB function. However, once you start using speedlights, it’s a whole different story.
