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Tips on using manual mode?
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<blockquote data-quote="Brian" data-source="post: 258412" data-attributes="member: 17621"><p>(Edit- posted at the same time as above, so obviously agree completely)</p><p></p><p>The nice thing about Digital is the immediate feedback to allow you to experiment. Look at the Histogram of the image and learn how to read it. If your subject is strongly backlit, much of the histogram will by "too the right", meaning saturated. Strong frontlit subject- most of the pixels will be to the left- underexposed, your subject should be somewhere in the middle and upper (Right) third.</p><p></p><p>I use manual mode when the lighting on the subject is "way off" from most of the area in the image. "Matrix Metering" attempts to take that into account. I use center-weighted metering as you can "visualize" what the meter is basing the reading on, and you can compensate. Most of the time, means adding to the exposure as the subject is backlit. Sometimes manual mode can be faster than using exposure compensation, or exposure lock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brian, post: 258412, member: 17621"] (Edit- posted at the same time as above, so obviously agree completely) The nice thing about Digital is the immediate feedback to allow you to experiment. Look at the Histogram of the image and learn how to read it. If your subject is strongly backlit, much of the histogram will by "too the right", meaning saturated. Strong frontlit subject- most of the pixels will be to the left- underexposed, your subject should be somewhere in the middle and upper (Right) third. I use manual mode when the lighting on the subject is "way off" from most of the area in the image. "Matrix Metering" attempts to take that into account. I use center-weighted metering as you can "visualize" what the meter is basing the reading on, and you can compensate. Most of the time, means adding to the exposure as the subject is backlit. Sometimes manual mode can be faster than using exposure compensation, or exposure lock. [/QUOTE]
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