Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
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PHOTO RESCUE<br />
“Help, I’ve blown it!”<br />
Use our foolproof exposure advice to ensure<br />
you never over-expose a white wedding dress<br />
BEFORE<br />
AFTER<br />
01<br />
02<br />
03<br />
Brett Harkness<br />
D-SLRCAMERASKILLS<br />
GETTING THE<br />
SHOT RIGHT<br />
Banish blown highlights<br />
with these SLR skills<br />
Choose the right<br />
metering mode<br />
With harsh light falling on a white<br />
wedding dress, even the most<br />
sophisticatedmeteringsystems<br />
can struggle to get exposureright.<br />
ShootinEvaluativemode, so<br />
that the camera takes a reading<br />
from the scene as a whole.<br />
Use your histogram<br />
for perfect exposures<br />
Take your shot, view it on your<br />
camera’s LCD screen, then call<br />
up the histogram. This shows the<br />
tonal range of your image. If it’s<br />
over-exposed, the body of the<br />
histogram will be stacked heavily<br />
to the far right of the graph.<br />
Fine-tune the shotwith<br />
Exposure Compensation<br />
If your shot is over-exposed then<br />
reshoot, bracketing your images<br />
with exposures either side of the<br />
metering system’s reading. Use<br />
the Exposure Compensation<br />
button to select howmuch to<br />
under or over-expose a scene.<br />
<strong>Digital</strong><strong>Camera</strong> July2010<br />
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