Comments on: Exposure Compensation: Everything You Need to Know

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:46:07 +0000

In reply to Saskia Vaughan. Isn't that the same as Program Mode?

By: Saskia Vaughan

Saskia Vaughan — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:32:16 +0000

I use it with bird photography. However, I will set the ISO to auto ISO. In This mode I keep control over my shutter speed and my aperture. Often, the brightness of the sky requires me to do some exposure compensation to bring out the feather detail.

By: Annie Ripley

Annie Ripley — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:47:53 +0000

Great article! My only way of fixing exposure problems so far is the editing one: there are great guides on fixing overexposed photos and brightening dark pictures, but it's always good to get things right in the camera.

By: waynebretl

waynebretl — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:21:31 +0000

Good article. My only nit is that I would replace the terms “deliberate overexposure” and “deliberate underexposure” with “deliberate brighter exposure” and “deliberate darker exposure.” It’s the camera that’s making the underexposure or overexposure, and you are correcting it.

By: Mike Fewster

Mike Fewster — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:05:36 +0000

In reply to Mike Grehan. This needs to be done with a bit more awareness of the in camera histogram. In mirrorless cameras, you examine the histogram before shooting and adjust the exposure before shooting one of the big advantages of mirrorless. In camera histograms however are generally wrong when shooting to the right. They base the right hand side on jpegs whereas there is considerably more room to the right in the RAW files. In some cameras, most Sonys but probably other brands as well, the evf can be set to compensate for this.

By: ANGELINE BROMHAM

ANGELINE BROMHAM — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:06:42 +0000

Great article, I am just starting a Diploma in photography at Westminster University and found this article really helpful in understanding Exposure compensation. The first set of photos I took were in manual mode on my Canon 1300D (very entry level ) and although I managed to produce the three sets of photos Under/normal/over exposed for my assignment it didn’t register the AEB -/+ for me to record, I’ve just taken another 3 in AV and its given me the AEB readings for me to register. Im not sue if I can use the first set but hey ho. Good to read everybody else’s replies it helps in understanding there’s more than one way of achieving your goal. Thanks guys.

By: Bill Merritt

Bill Merritt — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 02:19:00 +0000

Nice article Jim. Any thoughts on using “Program Shift?”

By: Nigel Cornfield

Nigel Cornfield — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:22:00 +0000

Hi Jim,

I shoot birds in flight.
I set my camera (D500) to 1/1600, my apparture to f8 and let the camera decide on the ISO. I set limits of between 100 and 3200. Surely exposure compensation works by over/under exposing via the ISO it selects?

Nigel Cornfield

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 20:50:00 +0000

Jim, thank you very much, finally I got shooting in Manual and Shutter Speed and Aperture Priority. Its plain English make it easy for foreigners. Thanks again.
Rc

By: Jim Hamel

Jim Hamel — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:56:00 +0000

In reply to mpmilestogo. Thanks! This is a good example of mid day sun making exposure tricky. You could dial the exposure down, but then the shadows on the left are in danger of doing to pure black. I suppose you could bracket to make sure you get everything. Frankly, however, I think I'd just reduce the Highlights a little bit in Lightroom or Photoshop. That would take care of things very quickly. But, since this is an exposure article, sticking strictly to exposure technique, your options are pretty limited given the disparity in tones and you might need to bracket.