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EV Compensation -- I should know... but
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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 503479" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>Okay, let me see if I can help clarify... </p><p></p><p>Your first shot is not particularly bright; really it's a pretty average scene if a little on the "high key" side (more lights than darks but nothing that's <em>particularly</em> light or dark), so it exposed correctly. Using Exposure Compensation "brightened" the already properly exposed photo. You might find the shot more pleasing with an exposure adjustment but when I open your first shot, without any compensation applied, the histogram confirms the shot is properly exposed.</p><p></p><p>So now, let's switch gears for a moment and imagine you are shooting a polar bear on a pristine bank of white snow under a full, bright sun. The camera meters the scene and you take the shot. Chances are all that snow, and your white polar bear, are going to look a bit grey. Maybe not 18% grey card grey, but you're probably not going to see pristine whites like you are seeing with the naked eye. So... What to do? Well, to get a nice white polar bear and nice white snow in this very bright scene, you need to INCREASE your exposure. When I say, "If it's too bright, go brighter!", what I mean to say is, if the scene looks "too bright" to your eye, INCREASE your exposure so it will not look too dark on your camera. How much you need to increase the exposure so it will match up with what you are seeing with the naked eye will vary with the particulars of each shot but the concept is the same: The brighter the scene is, the more the camera will want to bring down the exposure to more closely match middle grey. You compensate for this by INCREASING the exposure/brightening the photo.</p><p></p><p>I think we also need to be clear that <em>correct</em> exposure is often different from <em>aesthetically pleasing</em> exposure. By correct I mean that there are no blown out pixels, neither in the highlights, nor the shadows; only that the entire range of luminosity has been captured. Technically correct exposure may not be what we <em>want</em>, that's a matter of personal preference for each shot, but the meter's job, really, is to be <em>consistent</em>. Since it can't read our artistic mind it's up to us to understand how the meter behaves and too adjust for that so the exposure we get is the exposure we want. And we can only do that if the meter gives us a consistent platform from which we can base our calculations.</p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">.....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 503479, member: 13090"] Okay, let me see if I can help clarify... Your first shot is not particularly bright; really it's a pretty average scene if a little on the "high key" side (more lights than darks but nothing that's [I]particularly[/I] light or dark), so it exposed correctly. Using Exposure Compensation "brightened" the already properly exposed photo. You might find the shot more pleasing with an exposure adjustment but when I open your first shot, without any compensation applied, the histogram confirms the shot is properly exposed. So now, let's switch gears for a moment and imagine you are shooting a polar bear on a pristine bank of white snow under a full, bright sun. The camera meters the scene and you take the shot. Chances are all that snow, and your white polar bear, are going to look a bit grey. Maybe not 18% grey card grey, but you're probably not going to see pristine whites like you are seeing with the naked eye. So... What to do? Well, to get a nice white polar bear and nice white snow in this very bright scene, you need to INCREASE your exposure. When I say, "If it's too bright, go brighter!", what I mean to say is, if the scene looks "too bright" to your eye, INCREASE your exposure so it will not look too dark on your camera. How much you need to increase the exposure so it will match up with what you are seeing with the naked eye will vary with the particulars of each shot but the concept is the same: The brighter the scene is, the more the camera will want to bring down the exposure to more closely match middle grey. You compensate for this by INCREASING the exposure/brightening the photo. I think we also need to be clear that [I]correct[/I] exposure is often different from [I]aesthetically pleasing[/I] exposure. By correct I mean that there are no blown out pixels, neither in the highlights, nor the shadows; only that the entire range of luminosity has been captured. Technically correct exposure may not be what we [I]want[/I], that's a matter of personal preference for each shot, but the meter's job, really, is to be [I]consistent[/I]. Since it can't read our artistic mind it's up to us to understand how the meter behaves and too adjust for that so the exposure we get is the exposure we want. And we can only do that if the meter gives us a consistent platform from which we can base our calculations. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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