Does anyone know any good sites on learning to bracket, or can explain bracketing to me in an easy and simple way ? thanx
bracketing means that you just manually adjust the exposure of the picture. Lets say you are taking a picture and the camera is telling you that You are picking a 1/500th shutter speed for example, and the camera is picking a f8 aperture for example (In a case where you are shooting in shutter priority. Well now you take one picture at the camera's recommended setting, AND ALSO, you manually adjust the aperture to f5.6 (to overexpose) and take the picture at f5.6 with the same 1.500th shutter, AND ALSO you then Manually adjust the exposure to f`11 and keep the shutter at 1/500th.hence underexposing the image So now you have 3 pictures. One taken at the cameras recommended setting, One picture is underexposed by what is called ONE STOP and the other is Overexposed by what is called ONE STOP. The theory is that the camera's internal light meter which it used to suggest a recommended exposure is often fooled by environmental factors. Thus, by taking three pictures at different exposures, you are likely to have at least one turn out pretty good. Most camera actually have an exposure compensation dial which will allow you to either overexpose or underexpose the image by as much as 2-3 STOPS.
Brackets are like paranthesis ( and ). So they go AROUND the important stuff. So if you were to BRACKET an exposure, you would have (1) correct exposure (2) under exposure - bracket (3) over exposure -bracket The under and over BRACKET (goes around) the correct exposure. So you would take 3 pictures just to make sure you have the correct exposure. Some people would take 5 pictures 1 WAY UNDER 1 little bit under 1 correct exposure 1 little bit over 1 WAY over Good Luck
Bracketing is simply taking a series of pictures at different exposures. It could be by changing the shutter speed or the aperture. If you change the aperture though you will probably change the dof. slightly depending on the subject and point of focus. a
