Went for a walk on the Flint Hills Nature Trail and applied some of the info I received during a photography class today. First of all, I found out about the importance of the exposure compensation button on my camera - something I had no idea about. This little button changes the exposure that the camera calls for. By reducing the increments on the same subject, it'll create more definition. This is called "bracketing your exposures." I'm guessing most of you already knew that! But, for those who have low tolerance for trying to actually understand all the little numbers and gadgets on your camera (like me), this was NEWS!
I also discovered that once you load your photos on to your computer, you can right click the photo, scroll down and click "Properties," then click "Details" and scroll down to "camera" and you'll be able to find out the settings you used to get the final result. For this photo, my settings were:
F-stop - f/4 2
Exposure time - 1/80 sec.
ISO speed - 800
Exposure bias - 1.3 stop
Focal length - 72 mm
Max aperture 4.1
No flash
This photo was taken at dusk, about a half hour after sunset.
Tada!
A beautiful composition with lovely colours, tones and silhouettes. I keep accidentally setting exposure compensation when I use aperture priority, which I don't often do. Then when I go back to manual I wonder why every photo is too dark, or too light, depending on what I've accidentally set! I know the theory, but remembering to put everything into practice seems to be quite challenging!
