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EV Compensation -- I should know... but
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<blockquote data-quote="cwgrizz" data-source="post: 503339" data-attributes="member: 27017"><p>@<a href="http://nikonites.com/member-2489-john-.html" target="_blank">John!</a> Thanks, I know what you are saying. That is what I have read and watched someone in videos explain. In words and on paper it makes perfect sense. I completely understand what is being said, but........ where I am having problems is that I cannot seem to put it to practice. In other words, it doesn't seem to work as is being stated. Of course, I don't have a snow covered scene (So AZ doesn't get many snow storms. Ha!) </p><p></p><p>Let me put it another way. I can take a picture of the extra bright sky with the exposure as the camera decides it should be (no EV compensation) Shutter priority, ISO fixed, and the camera sets the aperture as an example of f9. The shot is not underexposed as stated it will be in all of the tutorials on EV compensation (because the 18% grey is guessed by the camera to be averaged), but in my estimation quite the opposite and overexposed. Of course in this situation if you add +1,2 or anything + it just exacerbates the overexposure. </p><p></p><p>Maybe I am still missing when to use or compensate. I know I can take three photos of the same scene using EV 0, +1, -1 and see the results as expected. +1 brighter, -1 darker from what 0 showed. If using something similar to the black coal (a line of thick pine trees) the exposure at 0 is dark (shadowed) so if I add -1 it just gets darker, but contrary to the 18% grey concept +1 pulls out the detail.</p><p></p><p>I hope this helps to illustrate my confusion and maybe give someone something that I am missing and bring my brain exposure to the correct value. Ha!</p><p></p><p>Thanks to all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwgrizz, post: 503339, member: 27017"] @[URL="http://nikonites.com/member-2489-john-.html"]John![/URL] Thanks, I know what you are saying. That is what I have read and watched someone in videos explain. In words and on paper it makes perfect sense. I completely understand what is being said, but........ where I am having problems is that I cannot seem to put it to practice. In other words, it doesn't seem to work as is being stated. Of course, I don't have a snow covered scene (So AZ doesn't get many snow storms. Ha!) Let me put it another way. I can take a picture of the extra bright sky with the exposure as the camera decides it should be (no EV compensation) Shutter priority, ISO fixed, and the camera sets the aperture as an example of f9. The shot is not underexposed as stated it will be in all of the tutorials on EV compensation (because the 18% grey is guessed by the camera to be averaged), but in my estimation quite the opposite and overexposed. Of course in this situation if you add +1,2 or anything + it just exacerbates the overexposure. Maybe I am still missing when to use or compensate. I know I can take three photos of the same scene using EV 0, +1, -1 and see the results as expected. +1 brighter, -1 darker from what 0 showed. If using something similar to the black coal (a line of thick pine trees) the exposure at 0 is dark (shadowed) so if I add -1 it just gets darker, but contrary to the 18% grey concept +1 pulls out the detail. I hope this helps to illustrate my confusion and maybe give someone something that I am missing and bring my brain exposure to the correct value. Ha! Thanks to all. [/QUOTE]
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