thanks
I wish I could give you a smart-sounding, knowledgeable response to your question........but I can't! :shame: I'm still playing around with the settings and learning my way, that setting seemed to be making the pictures look better in review on the screen. It was early evening, so the light was starting to fade, what would you have suggested as a setting?
I think nickt pretty much covered it. I was really just curious what the thought process was for the compensation. For me I typically use exposure compensation if I'm shooting in aperture or shutter mode and I anticipate the camera is going to "miss" the exposure. For example if I'm in aperture mode and I'm shooting a bird on a bright white sky background I might raise the exposure comp +1 or +2 to try and over expose for the bird. Mainly because whatever metering mode I'm in, I'm anticipating that the camera will expose properly on the sky but might under expose the bird (thus the reason I raise the exposure compensation).
One thing I do is check out flickr for the subject that I plan to shoot to get an idea of the settings that other photographers use. In your case I looked up porsche and a good portion of photographers that I saw used f10 (like you did). I was a little bit surprised because I thought they would use a larger aperture to try and allow for a faster shutter speed. I suspect f10 is a sweet spot for the lens they were using or was necessary for the amount of DoF that they were going for. Either way your pic is great and that's what counts.
