Understanding Exposure Compensation
Posted: March 27, 2018
No matter the subject, making sure images are properly exposed is an important part of photography. You may think that you'll just edit photos in post production, but ensuring that your camera's exposure is set properly can help speed up the editing process. Understand your camera's Exposure Compensation feature in order to have great looking photos every time.
Simon Ringsmuth, writer for Digital Photography School, shares information about Exposure Compensation in cameras.
In this article, learn about the Exposure Compensation feature on your camera to get the best exposures.
Whether you’re shooting sports, animals, portraits, toys, snowflakes, rocks, fish, weddings, or pretty much anything else you almost always have one goal in mind. You want your pictures to be properly exposed. Of course, you can fix an image in Photoshop if it’s too light or too dark, and shooting RAW definitely helps with that. But over the years I’ve found that the best solution is to just get your exposure right in camera.
This means finding the right combination of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO to get your image to look the way you want. But there’s another option you have at your disposal as well – your camera’s Exposure Compensation feature. Understanding what this does and how it works can help you get your pictures looking pixel-perfect in camera without having to adjust anything afterward.
What is Exposure Compensation?
Buried deep in the computational brain of your camera is something called a
light meter whose job it is to measure the amount of light entering the lens. This lets your camera adjust some of the exposure settings automatically or gives you enough information for you to
make adjustments yourself.
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