Monday, August 16, 2010

Save Every Precious Moment (in any lighting condition)

Many people, when they have to take pictures under an extreme-unfavorable lighting condition, they either have it too dark or too bright, then either they have to repeat taking the picture by setting the exposure correction or they lost the moment once and for all.

Here the trick that I usually do, under the condition above or even just in the time when I have to make sure all picture I take during that moment could be used, I always put the bracketing setting "ON". Please note, not all DSLR could support the bracketing mode, you may want to look at your manual book to find out how to set your camera with bracketing mode. When the lighting contrast is "bad", I normally set the bracketing from -2/3,0,+2/3 to -1,0,+1. But in case of "worse" lighting contrast, for example when you are at the dessert with very bright sun light, on the beach, etc, then you might really want to consider to put it to -2,0,+2. 

Sometimes you will find picture with "no" exposure correction turn out to be useable, but in this case, I would like to talk about, saving every precious moment, meaning, none of the picture could be failed. 
When you do the bracketing, there are couple of things to be considered.
1. Never set your ISO to automatic.
2. Set your camera to aperture value setting.
and the most imporant thing...
DON'T FORGET TO TAKE THREE PICTURES IN A ROW
otherwise, you will ruin either your current picture or the next round bracketing.

*_* good luck, and have fun............

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