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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 551840" data-attributes="member: 13090">The issue, really, as I see it, is whether or not your D3300 will be able to handle the dynamic range of the shot; and either it will, or it won't. If the dynamic range of the shot falls within what your D3300 can handle, you're pretty much golden. If the dynamic range falls outside of what your D3300 can handle you're going to have to decide if you want the dress properly exposed at the expense of something else blowing out. If you are okay with some other part or parts of your shot blowing out, then one solution to consider would be metering directly off the dress using Center-Weighted or Spot metering. But suggesting you use Spot-metering would elicit a barrage of posts about how Spot-metering is for experts only.&nbsp; *shrug*&nbsp; I disagree, personally, but if I were you I'd study up on the different metering modes and experiment with them until you understand how they work and what sort of result they're going to provide. Bracketing, as has already been mentioned would be good if you can do that, learning to read the histogram on your camera would also be time well spent. Shooting in raw, instead of JPG, assuming you have processing software, would give you a huge amount of latitude to correct exposure as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 551840, member: 13090"] The issue, really, as I see it, is whether or not your D3300 will be able to handle the dynamic range of the shot; and either it will, or it won't. If the dynamic range of the shot falls within what your D3300 can handle, you're pretty much golden. If the dynamic range falls outside of what your D3300 can handle you're going to have to decide if you want the dress properly exposed [I]at the expense of something else blowing out[/I]. If you are okay with some other part or parts of your shot blowing out, then one solution to consider would be metering directly off the dress using Center-Weighted or Spot metering. But suggesting you use Spot-metering would elicit a barrage of posts about how Spot-metering is for experts only. *shrug* I disagree, personally, but if I were you I'd study up on the different metering modes and experiment with them until you understand how they work and what sort of result they're going to provide. Bracketing, as has already been mentioned would be good if you can do that, learning to read the histogram on your camera would also be time well spent. Shooting in raw, instead of JPG, assuming you have processing software, would give you a huge amount of latitude to correct exposure as well. [/QUOTE]

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