I think if you are using off camera flash, you can change the power of your flash using exposure compensation to a certain degree and you don't have to physically go to your flash stand and change the flash settings. That's what I do with it for the most part.
@harveyzone that's right Tom. Now I look closer, the exposure compensation & automatic exposure bracketing are on the same configuration block on the back LCD.
In manual mode only the AEB can be changed. In Aperture Priority mode you can change AEB & exposure compensation.
@sharritta thanks Sharon, there is a separate area for flash exposure compensation which is probably what you are talking about. Apparently with the Canons it operates independently of the ambient light exposure compensation whereas Nikons ambient light compensation affects the flash compensation too.
@godders Thanks Paul, it sounds like that will be the case if I find myself shooting in a priority mode. That would be a good option.
It really helps to tell the camera not to search deeply for detail in "blacks" where there is no detail. This is complementary issue to the "high ISO" compensation.
As @godders points out, it gives you a much better basis for Photoshopping away any noise that does remain. Photoshop has less to do, and thus less to distort. i think you might notice that the RAW files from the camera when you have this set are smaller than when it is not set. The sensor is not reaching as much, and the "bleed over" is consequently less, and no extra "bleed over" detail recorded.
i set both noise reduction (high ISO and long exposure) to high in the camera without thinking.
I just used it a bit ago. I was using the bracketing for the camera settings challenge and they were all too bright in my opinion. So I used exposure compensation to set the bracketting lower. I don't think it even works in manual mode.
if you are shooting manual then you are already doing exposure compensation by adjusting the exposure manually to what you want and using the exposure compensation wont do anything since you are in manual ( well on my camera anyway). You use exposure compensation when shooting in aperture or shutter priority. Since your camera is automatically giving you a setting you have no way of adjusting what the camera gives you unless you use exposure compensation. I use it constantly in Aperture priority to adjust the automatic exposure given to me.
@frankhymus thanks Frank. I had "High ISO Speed NR" set to normal but with your suggestion I will try it on high & see how that performs.
@tigerdreamer@soia Hi Karen & Kevin, you are right, it does not work in manual mode. As far as not getting my head around the "why you would use it" goes, I understand now the role it plays in adding a little extra control to the priority modes. Thanks for your input.
If you shoot in RAW, high ISO noise reduction has no effect. (If you process the RAW file with your camera manufacturer's software it will switch on noise reduction processing in the RAW software, but the result is no different to if you do it yourself when processing the RAW file, which also gives you more control of the level of reduction to apply).
Long exposure noise reduction will affect both RAW and JPEG files and cannot (easily) be replicated in post-processing.
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By manually adjusting the settings you are simply performing manual exposure compensation. I don't see the difference.
In manual mode only the AEB can be changed. In Aperture Priority mode you can change AEB & exposure compensation.
That answers the question. Thanks very much.
@godders Thanks Paul, it sounds like that will be the case if I find myself shooting in a priority mode. That would be a good option.
As @godders points out, it gives you a much better basis for Photoshopping away any noise that does remain. Photoshop has less to do, and thus less to distort. i think you might notice that the RAW files from the camera when you have this set are smaller than when it is not set. The sensor is not reaching as much, and the "bleed over" is consequently less, and no extra "bleed over" detail recorded.
i set both noise reduction (high ISO and long exposure) to high in the camera without thinking.
@tigerdreamer @soia Hi Karen & Kevin, you are right, it does not work in manual mode. As far as not getting my head around the "why you would use it" goes, I understand now the role it plays in adding a little extra control to the priority modes. Thanks for your input.
Long exposure noise reduction will affect both RAW and JPEG files and cannot (easily) be replicated in post-processing.
Thanks again.