Posts Tagged ‘Exposure ’
You’re camera has a setting called “exposure compensation,” usually labeled or represented by “EV” and a + or a -. What is exposure compensation, and why would you want to use it? When you leave the camera in an automatic or semi-automatic mode (i.e. Automatic, Aperture Priority, Shutter Speed Priority),…
That first image doesn’t look so good, does it. So how do we get it to look like the second…? So I took this picture today at Boyd Park in New Brunswick, NJ. I was scouting out potential locations for shoots, and I hadn’t been to the park in a…
Ever look at the histogram in Lightroom and wonder what those pointy-triangle things are? Yeah, me too. If you don’t know what the histogram is, it’s that graph looking thing in the righthand panel in Lightroom. That’s a topic for a whole nother day. But those triangles in the top…
A stop (might also be called an f-stop or an exposure stop) is a basic but important term in photography. You might hear someone say that a picture is “Underexposed by 1 stop” or “The picture is overexposed, turn the exposure down one stop.” The term “stop” is a relative…
