It often happens that a photograph - when using a camera of any professional level - turns out to be too light or too dark. The correct color balance of the image is what exposure is. Amateur photographers use automatic and semi-automatic modes. However, if you are thinking about creating high-quality photographs, you should know not only what the exposure is, but also how to properly set it up under different lighting conditions manually.
A few words about color compensation
The standard exposure value that the camera recognizes is not always enough to get a high-quality picture. Exposure compensation helps you adjust camera settings. It is adjusted for each photo and for various lighting separately.
Every object has the ability to reflect light. Therefore, it is impossible to say exactly when exposure adjustment may be required - this depends on the level of illumination, the expected end result and the skills of the photographer. Each camera is equipped with a light meter, which is used for independent adjustments. With it, you can maintain a balance of light and dark in photographs, making them more expressive and excluding overexposure or underexposure.
Exposure Guidelines
It is not enough to know what an exposition is in order to receive high-quality photographs, since it may not always be needed. Additional settings are necessary in certain cases.
If there are bright objects in the frame, magnification is recommended. When shooting dark objects, on the contrary, the camera automatically increases exposure, resulting in a too light object. Therefore, in this case, a reduction is required.
The standard exposure when shooting bright and colored objects leads to the fact that the frame is dark or light, less often - balanced in color. In order to avoid corrupted frames, an increase in exposure is also required - then the frame will come out bright. In addition, let’s say, if a certain color will prevail in the photo, manual adjustment may also be required. So, for violet and orange colors, it is desirable to increase the exposure by 0.5 values, for pink - by 1 step.
Correct color rendering
White balance is the key to the correct color rendering by the camera, which any camera owner should be aware of. Having figured out what an exposition is, how to set it up correctly and when to use it, you should learn about the automatic capabilities of cameras, thanks to which you get a live photo with the right color balance. So, using the
daylight setting will help to fix objects in sunlight with maximum transmission of all tones. Setting the shadow mode will not allow you to fix an unnecessary blue tint in the frame, which almost always reflects from the sky in the shadow. Street photography in cloudy weather needs to compensate for the brightness so that the object does not have a bluish (as is standard with such lighting), but a yellowish, that is, a brighter shade. The greenish reflection that appears under fluorescent lighting can also be removed by automatically setting the shooting modes on the camera.