That should tell you that you have too much light coming into the camera. As you look at the light meter in the viewfinder there are several lines moving toward the plus sign. The last time you taking pictures you had your shutter speed set to 1/60th of a second. You want the background to have a nice creamy background ( shallow depth of field), so you open your aperture to f/3.5. Let’s say that you are outside taking photos of your children. A ny of these will work, you will just need to choose the one that will work best for your photo. To move it back towards the middle, you need to increase the amount of light coming in the camera by either opening up the aperture, decreasing the shutter speed, increasing the ISO or some combination of the three. If the light meter is moving toward the minus sign, your photo will be underexposed. You can choose any of those methods to let in less light depending on the vision you have for your photo. To move it back towards the middle, you need to decrease the amount of light coming in the camera by either closing down the aperture, increasing the shutter speed, lowering the ISO or some combination of these three. If the light meter is moving toward the plus sign, your photo will be overexposed. To get a good exposure, the goal will be to get your light meter balanced in the center. Your light meter will look something like the photo shown below and will tell you if your aperture, shutter speed, or ISO are out of balance. You should use your in-camera light meter to help get the perfect exposure. We talked about these three in our last 3 posts, so hopefully these are not new words for you (if they are, go back and read the previous tutorials). YOU are in control how much light hits the sensor using Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO, also referred to together as the Exposure Triangle.
If you let in too much light, your photos will be very bright and generally look washed-out.
If you let in too little light, your photographs will be dark and generally gray looking. To get the perfect exposure, the perfect amount of light has to hit your sensor.
PERFECT RESIZE MANUAL HOW TO
In today's post, I will show you how to put everything you have learned so far, together to help achieve better photos!
PERFECT RESIZE MANUAL MANUAL
Perfect Camera Exposure (Putting it All Together) Welcome to Day 6 of Mastering Manual Mode!