Review Digital Camera World 04-10-2013

Digital Camera World

10 common exposure problems every photographer faces (and how to fix them) Apr 9th 2013, 23:01 Are you struggling to get well-lit shots? You don’t need any fancy equipment or complex lighting techniques. This guide to the 10 most common exposure problems all photographers face will show you how to avoid them and start taking better pictures today. At some point most photographers take a picture that doesn’t come out exactly as they expected, it’s either too dark or much lighter than they want it to be. This might be because of a mistake with the metering, they’ve made an exposure error or because the camera settings are wrong. In this article we explain 10 of the most common exposure problems and how to avoid them. Exposure Problem 1. White subject made grey Camera metering systems generally expect the brightness of a scene to average out as a midtone. There may be very bright and dark sections, but the average brightness is somewhere in between. So if you fill the frame with a very light subject, a winter landscape or a light, sandy beach, for example, the camera will reduce the exposure to render it a midtone. Hence a white subject is often made grey. The solution is simple, just use the exposure compensation control to increase the exposure above the value suggested by the camera. With snow you may need to increase it by over 1EV, perhaps even 2EV. The key is to keep an eye on the histogram view and increase the exposure until the trace reaches the far right of the scale, indicating that there are some whites in the image. Don’t increase the exposure too far and introduce a large peak at the right end of the histogram as this means that lots of the highlights are burned out. Exposure Problem 1. White subject made grey Exposure Problem 2. Black subject made grey Exposure Problem 3. Camera in the wrong exposure mode Exposure Problem 4. Underexposed back-lit subject Exposure Problem 5. Spotmeter on Exposure Problem 6. Underexposed foreground in a landscape Exposure Problem 7. Overexposed clouds in a landscape Exposure Problem 8. Exposure compensation set incorrectly Exposure Problem 9. Shutter speed too slow to freeze movement Exposure Problem 10. Wrong sensitivity setting selected READ MORE 10 common camera mistakes every photographer makes Photography Basics: the No. 1 cheat sheet for metering and exposure Expose to the right: the camera technique every landscape photographer must know 3 exposure techniques every beginner must know (and when you should use them) Balanced Pictures: using color, shape, light and shade for perfect composition Apr 9th 2013, 10:00 Our latest guide to improving photo composition shows you how to create balanced pictures. Find out how to take pictures using color, shapes, light and many other factors to create harmonious compositions. Balance in pictures is a powerful thing. Keeping a frame balanced isn't quite as simple as getting the right proportions between subjects, or being able to split the image into chunks. It can be based around colors, light and shade, and other factors. Why do certain numbers in pictures work better than others? Read on to find out. Balancing light Dealing with light in a scene is a matter of balance. The contrast between light and shade can make or break a picture. Paying close attention to the two extremes when composing and framing your images will result in better photos. Balancing a scene is a case of making sure that where there's light, there's also shade. Highlights and bright areas are often referred to as 'light' (as in weight), whereas dark areas are described as 'heavy'. Try composing shots that have light and heavy areas placed according to the rule of thirds. This image, taken in Bath Abbey, Bath, England is an example of how attention can be drawn to smaller 'light' areas in a picture. Without the larger 'heavy' areas the shot would feel unbalanced and the composition would suffer. PAGE 1: Balancing light PAGE 2: Odd numbers work best for balanced pictures PAGE 3: Using patterns for balanced pictures READ MORE 15 common photography questions from beginners (and how to solve them) Crop photos the right way: classic mistakes and how to avoid them Camera Angles: 5 ways to add impact with unusual perspectives

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