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You can not altering light in Aperature Priority mode since you change the F stop the camera will change the shutter.
4 ways to appoach the problem of over exposure.
1) set camera on manual with setting of F stop and shutter speed showed in aperature priority BUT decrease your fstop 1 stop or 1/2 stop. if you are at fstop of 7, bring it to 8 or so. OR keep the fstop at 7 but change shutter speed to double i.e., shutter speed at 1/25, bring it to 1/50
2) set camera exposure compensation to -1EV
3) bracket your exposure. to +/- 1EV
4) recalibrate your white balance.
if you are shooting nikon D60, don't forget to do matrix meter patern. if you want to complicate thing up, try centering weight meter patern. (recommend not to do these things right now)
Olivier
4 ways to appoach the problem of over exposure.
1) set camera on manual with setting of F stop and shutter speed showed in aperature priority BUT decrease your fstop 1 stop or 1/2 stop. if you are at fstop of 7, bring it to 8 or so. OR keep the fstop at 7 but change shutter speed to double i.e., shutter speed at 1/25, bring it to 1/50
2) set camera exposure compensation to -1EV
3) bracket your exposure. to +/- 1EV
4) recalibrate your white balance.
if you are shooting nikon D60, don't forget to do matrix meter patern. if you want to complicate thing up, try centering weight meter patern. (recommend not to do these things right now)
Olivier
The D50 is probably in the menu, rather than a button on the camera.
Bob, Matrix metering has the camera look ALL ACROSS the image to see what the lighting is so that it sets the exposure based on how much light the entire image is getting.
When you're subject has a LOT of light behind them the camera would naturally want to underexpose the person to compensate for all the light behind them. Similarly if someone is standing against a really dark backdrop it might overexpose the person in matrix to make up for the black around them. In that case you may want to change to center weighted or spot metering so that your camera's light assessment is done on the "center" (focal point) or the "spot" (focal point).
Bob, Matrix metering has the camera look ALL ACROSS the image to see what the lighting is so that it sets the exposure based on how much light the entire image is getting.
When you're subject has a LOT of light behind them the camera would naturally want to underexpose the person to compensate for all the light behind them. Similarly if someone is standing against a really dark backdrop it might overexpose the person in matrix to make up for the black around them. In that case you may want to change to center weighted or spot metering so that your camera's light assessment is done on the "center" (focal point) or the "spot" (focal point).
if you are in M mode, don't use exposure compensation. however, set the fstop and shutter speed so that the light meter showed 0 then shoot away. Check your picture, if it still light, change shutter speed to higher number. Since you in M mode, I recommend to play around with shutter and fstop combination until you see and understand what are those two thing effect your picture. Then at the setting you like, switch the meter to center weight then spot then matrix to see how it is effecting. once you understand and know your camera interm of shutter speed, fstop, light meter sensor behavior, you are all set to take any picture at pro level.BobCReef said:I do have a +/- button but when i press it and rotate the dial it changes the Fstop(i'm in M)
Phyl you need to add this matrix thing to your presintation
keep practice. it took me about at least 3000 negatives film to actually know what i am doing with my camera, then another atleast 10000 negatives/positives film to understand lightning, composition, depth of field. So don't be shy to try and ask question.
I think I knew more in photography than with fish. bad bad bad
The only time your camera will continue to ue the metering/exposure compensation even in Manual mode is if you have your ISO set to Auto. In that case it will continue to adjust the ISO up to get to the "proper" exposure (or what it determines to be the proper exposure). If the camera is in fully manual mode then, as Olivier said, YOU are the exposure compensation!
In aperature priority mode you'll need to learn how to change the exposure compensation. Check the manual for that. On my cams it has always been a button on cam rather than having to go through the menus. Also changing it to spot metering will fix that.
In aperature priority mode you'll need to learn how to change the exposure compensation. Check the manual for that. On my cams it has always been a button on cam rather than having to go through the menus. Also changing it to spot metering will fix that.
Bob,
now don't forget about shutter speed if you are in M mode. Change Fstop will increase/decrease light. adjust your shutter speed to maintained your exposure. if you are in A mode, just change Fstop and shoot away. do you have DOF button on your camera? that would help you more on depth during composition.
now don't forget about shutter speed if you are in M mode. Change Fstop will increase/decrease light. adjust your shutter speed to maintained your exposure. if you are in A mode, just change Fstop and shoot away. do you have DOF button on your camera? that would help you more on depth during composition.