More tips on using a digital camera
In my first post about how to use a digital camera I showed you some ways to use settings other than auto.
Let’s have a look at exposure for photos which will be too dark or too bright. On the back of my camera and most cameras is a button called WB standing for white balance. It might be just a set of + and - signs. Press this (not from auto, but from P) and you will see numbers down the bottom from -2 through 0 to +2. Now if the pointer is below 0 the shot will be too dark so you can move the pointer to 0 or 1 to correct that. The same goes for if the pointer is over 0 in the +1 or +2 region. That will be overexposed, so move the pointer back to below 0.
To expose faces when they are in front of too much sun, (to give the face more exposure), move the pointer to above 0.
The bracketing setting (found in the menu) will take 3 shots. One overexposed, one underexposed and one at the camera’s setting.
Check your default settings and play around with them. The default saturation is often too garish. Your image settings should be at the largest resolution and finest quality. The quality relates to the compression setting. Fine and Super Fine is on a moderate compression and the compression is extreme for low quality.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Those are a couple of good tips I’ll keep in mind next time I am out taking pictures.