Question by B M: What effect will exposure compensation have on my pictures?
My D40 has Exposure compensation settings, but I’ve yet to use them. Now that I am getting into night photography, I want to know what effect this setting will have on my shots. Will there be excessive and noticable noise? Will the shots look artificial?
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Answer by cedykeman1
I don’t own that camera, but I am a big enthusiast of photography, and when I talk to people about special situations, they all say to turn off all the automatic settings.
Camera’s are fooled quite easily and I would hate to see you depending on some computer chip making decisions about your shots.
What the person below me is talking about is called bracketing, and is a professional technique to get a set of shots that have slightly different aperature settings. It’s really good advice and many cameras will do it automatically if you set it that way
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No No. Exposer compensation just changes the automatic exposure by the amount you changed it. Many professional photographers will take each shot 3 times, one at the camera’s setting, one +1 stop over exposed and one with -1 stop under exposure. For example if the camera choose 1/60 of a second the +1 would the 1/30 of a second and the -1 would be 1/125. That is for aperture priority mode in shutter priority mode you would change 1 f stop in each direction for +1 and -1.
Sorry for confusing you bit if you experiment you will quickly figure it out.