Exposure Compensation

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Exposure Compensation

• Way to control your exposure

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Cameras Meter

• Selects an aperture/shutter speed combination
  that it believes will give a properly exposed
  picture.
• sometimes determines the wrong exposure value
  needed to correctly expose the image.

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Exposure Compensation

• Slightly over-exposing the image or slightly
  under-exposing the image.

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Why do we use it.

• To ensure a properly exposed photo.

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Universal Symbol
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Exposure Compensation

• Exposure Value
• Adds more light to pictures
• Makes Lighter
• - Subtracts light from pictures
• Makes darker
• /- 2 EV

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EV COMPARISION
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Normal Exposure

• Most average scenes reflect 18 of the light that
  falls on to them.

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Bright Scenes

• Reflect more than 18 of the light.
• Beach Scenes
• Bright sand
• Snow covered landscapes
• You need to subtract exposure (make darker)

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Dark Scenes

• Reflect less than 18 of the light falling on
  them.
• Deep shadows
• Dark Foliage
• Black Cloth
• You need to increase your exposure (make lighter)

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Others

• Subject against a very light background.
• Main subject will be dark
• Subject against very dark background.
• Main subject will be to light.
• Scenes with High Contrast

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To sum it all up

• To lighten a picture, you increase the exposure
  ().
• To darken an image, you decrease the exposure (-)

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