How Does Exposure Compensation Actually Work? | Ask David Bergman
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Today's question from Jeff S. -- “How does exposure compensation actually work? Does it just change shutter speed, aperture, or ISO? If so, how does it decide which setting or settings to change?”
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Count of " " was so irritating to me....
Yes. It was very distracting.
Yea it really detracted from the useful information
Seriously
Thumbs down just for the counting of air quotes very distracting
Agreed. These “quirks” on free education materials are soooooooo annoying. Gtfo here. Beggars can’t be choosers
I couldn't make it past the 3rd ding.
OMG 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
I barely managed to the 6th. Most annoying video edit ever. And it cuts in the middle of sentences ruining the good lesson.
Stop the ding. It detracts from the message ANNOYING
Deal with it.
that ding lost it's appeal real fast.
but otherwise, super handy video!
I stopped watching half way through because of the distracting 'ding's
The dings would be bearable, but the constant pausing of the video killed it for me.
Yeah bad call..
Dings and pauses bad. Quit watching on third ding.
Couldn't watch the whole thing because of the annoying "dings" and freeze frame.
Yeah, lower volume and no freeze frame would have made it more watchable.
Totally agree
Same
LOL, I really got a lot out of the video but yes most distracting. It's common in the world of teaching videos. I suppose the idea is to keep it fun and entertaining but I myself like to get serious and stay in the zone of focusing and learning.
same
Just put up a counter instead of the dings & freeze frames
I cannot watch this with the mindless dings.
The air quote gimmick was distracting and annoying.....got to 2:53 and quit
Please stop the dinging. It got in the way of the message.
As someone who is prone to migraines the audio quality is just as important as the content.
4 minutes 6 dings and I’m wrenching. Afraid to watch more because it will trigger a migraine. Please adjust the dreaded 🛎
I couldn't get past the dings. It ruined your video. Cus I was no longer listening but rather waiting for you to do the quotation marks and hearing that ding.
Thank you for stating what I've always known but couldn't articulate, which is that if you shoot manually exposure compensation has no value lol. You simply adjust your aperture or shutter speed accordingly (e.g., based on light meter readings or, better yet, what you see on the LCD).
I heard that what you see on the screen is deceptive. You should instead check on the histogram. Is that correct?
That's not accurate, at least on cameras I've used. All the exposure compensation does is tell the camera metering system that the scene is brighter or darker than the 18% grey that it typically exposes for. In automatic modes, it will result in changes being made to the actual settings. In manual mode, all it does is change where the indicator is on the exposure meter and leave it to you to make the adjustment manually. As a result, you can get a lot more adjustment than you'd think as you get both the maximum exposure compensation as well as the maximum amount that you can adjust the meter and still be on the display.
It's kind of an important detail as sometimes you may need more than the amount of compensation that is available or what you can see within the meter. In manual mode you can just completely ignore the compensation if you like, but it will limit you insituations where you need so much compensation that you're no longer on the displayed meter.
And as Lewis suggested, ultimately, it's the histogram that will tell you if you've got the exposure correct. Or at least correct enough for some reasonable adjustment in software.
@@lewis1180 I almost never use my histogram for exposure *shrugs*
That's basically what I have come to figure out. EC only applies to people who shoot Aperture or Shutter Priority. I've never turned my knob off of M for the 25 years I've used a SLR or DSLR. I wouldn't know who to use my camera if it's not on M. Just the way I was taught
Good explanation but please REMOVE THE DINGS!
Keep the count of the air quotes if you think it is funny, but remove the bell noise and pause. Otherwise the info, and delivery was good.
Always love your videos, but those "dinging" number that keep popping up are really annoying/distracting.
I'm sorry, but after the third bell I gotta rage quit.
The ding ding ding was really annoying, for the first and second time maybe u made the point but beyond that it was unnecessary...very distracting.
That count was jarring.. video looked promising before that
Came here to complain about the dings ... Seems like am not the only one annoyed by that . It seems like a great video but can't take dings any further.
If a photo is too dark or too light, why don’t you just change the aperture or shutter speed?
Why bother with Exposure Compensation? I don’t get it.
The ding noise gave me ptsd
Such information filled video. But spoiled by 🛎️🛎️🛎️
Great video but seriously, what’s with the “ count? If at least it was silent and without interruption, but otherwise very irritating to the point I almost closed the video. Please consider for next time.
If all EC does is change one of the other settings, then why not just change those settings yourself? I was always under the impression EC somehow changed some other setting in a way not known by users.
Very irritating freeze frames, don't do that!!!!!!!
Hey David, thanks for the response. You mostly answered the question, but... I am a Canon shooter, in your example you were shooting Av and you set the ISO, what if you left the ISO on Auto, hence giving the camera two choices to adjust (shutter and ISO), which would it choose? I do mostly shoot Manual (setting shutter and aperture) leaving ISO on auto for bird shooting, but I'm almost positive that the camera adjusts my shutter speed in this case, not just ISO when I shoot with bracketing on.
If shooting aperture priority in auto ISO, the camera will adjust shutter speed first as always. Then, when it gets to the minimum shutter speed you set (in the auto iso settings), it will stop and switch to moving the ISO. That’s so your shutter speed doesn’t get so low that you get blurry images. Here’s a video I did about it: ua-cam.com/video/lFpLhIHXVOk/v-deo.html
Wow. That’s the best explanation I’ve heard. I finally got now. Thank you!!
Fantastic lesson. It’s always been confusing part of photography but not anymore. Thank you.
Appreciated the video (and voted as such), but the constant dings were annoying.
Very annoying joke with the "..." thing
Best explanation - the way I see it then is you could use Exp Comp to selectively make the blacks less grey or make the whites whiter in your shot if the camera tries to neutralize everything to a neutral medium grey
Essentially yes. With many sensors though, that applies just as much to lit reds, magentas and yellows as to whites as all three use red pixels and tend to be highlights that are more easily blown.
Excellent. Simon d’Entremont also does an excellent Exposure Compensation mode lesson. Grateful I found both! 😊 thank you!
I prefer Manual Mode also, where I set the Aperture and Shutter speed, but put the ISO on Auto. That way, when you use exposure compensation it only changes the ISO. Works for me :) Keep up the great work!
Best answer right here ^. If you are new or you are simply a shooter hat's never really used it, THIS ^ again is the best way to go.
In doing this you can allow the camera to pick a high iso which might get grainy
What max ISO settings do you use?
Not a good explanation come to point fast
In digital photography the most frequent exposure problem is blown out, irretrievably overexposed highlights. Underexposing by one stop (and often even more) will not only reduce the likelihood of that happening, it will be easy to restore the highlight/shadow balance in post. Even modestly priced gear will retain shadow detail if underexposed up to three stops, but at least some blown out highlights tend to pop up in most uncompensated images, unless spot metering was used to expose specifically for the highlights. Bottom line - most of the time expose/compensate for the highlights, and retrieve the shadows in post.
Pls straight to the point. Make it less ding.
After about the fourth ding I turned this off. So annoying and unnecessary.
I tend to shoot S priority most of the time personally. On manual, may go a half stop lower for better saturation.
And this answers why I never use exposure compensation: I'm always shooting in manual mode. But, it's still pretty useful for shooting in shutter priority or aperture priority when the internal reflective meter isn't metering the point of focus.
If using auto ISO, exposure comp is useful for manually pushing the gain average up or down.
Obviously, if you've got an external meter, this is pointless. An incident meter will get the exposure right pretty much every time, as long as you can position it near the subject.
For manual generally though, it can be useful if youre exposure needs to be far enough off from the typical that the indicator is stuck on the left or the right. At that point, you might as well not even have a meter as you're not going to be able to tell the difference. The EC can extendt hat a bit. Shooting with the indicator stuck at either side is kind of risky.
The internal reflective meter IS metering the point of focus.
Your air quote count got annoying had to stop watching.
I started with Program Mode on Nikon D3400, it sets all three for you, but you can modify each of them and the other two will change correspondingly. I used it like months and pushed myself to go full Manual, because you didn't learn much from all semi-auto modes.
Often, I'll watch YT videos, using headphones, while my GF is sleeping. Those loud dings very possibly would cause me to unsubscribe - fast.
A lot of time EC is used for OCF photog shooting with TTL in Aperture priority modes. It's basically an easy way to get quick settings for a decent foreground lit portrait. I've never taken any camera body I've ever owned off "M" so the idea of exposure compensation is moot to me.
The pausing with updated counts of your fingers simulating quotes was so annoying that I stopped watching about 1/3 through your video. Really, really annoying.
I use exposure compensation all the time in hockey arenas. The ice reflects and causes the cameras metering to be off. So I take a test shot. Some arenas I’m up at +1.7 and sometimes as low as +1.3. It depends on the lighting and the ice surface. I look at the images I take for details in the highlights, proper skin tones and the uniform colours. Lots of times one team will have a dark jersey and another a light jersey. So I want to make sure I see the tonal ranges in the jerseys. I am usually shooting at 1/320
Second and iso 3200. I have a variable aperture lens 70-300 f:/4.5-6.3 so I do have to make minor adjustments when shooting at 70mm compared to 220mm. It works well. Saves me in editing in post ( other than checking horizon lines).
1/320s is way too slow for sports.
Really good video. Very informative. But, if I could make a suggestion, dial back on the volume of the “chime”. It’s bit harsh. Cheers
Hi David. On a speedlight you have zoom. Why should you use it and how? // José from Sweden.
Sorry David, started watching your video, which looked promising, but when it started to count your 'air quotes, I found it too distracting to continue watching, so logged out and went looking elsewhere. Pity.
The DINGS where incredibly annoying man, could not concentrate on something else and have video playing at the same time... Thanks for the video tho
I have a zoom lens with variable aperture f/4.5 to f/6.3. By setting it to aperture priority mode and setting the correct exposure compensation even though the camera will change the aperture when I zoom in or out I will get the correct exposure. Depending on how I have zoomed the lens the camera will change the aperture and the exposure will be compensated with shutter speed.
I just got so distracted with the sudden pause because of air quote counts, absolutely distracting and ridiculous. Explanation was amazing otherwise!
Why would you purposefully ruin your video with that whole air quote count? Can’t get past number 4, gonna look for another video.
White blond in wedding dress..Black groom in dark suit what would be the ideal settings ??? Thanks anyone.
The count of “ “ was epic!!! Bahahahahahahaha! Thank you! Very informative video.
Excellent info but those dings are super annoying. I’d rather the air quotes over the dings.
Stop showing your air quotes counts , That's distractive . Please !
You sound like a good teacher, but man, your ding ding ding thing is annoying. Couldn't watch the full video.
is it worth reducing the exposure down 1 stop (for example) to get a faster shutter speed then bringing the brightness back up when doing your post processing?
i shoot with Av mode..
so you know i clicked off because you kept playing that super loud bell. i get why you were doing it but its super annoying. just letting you know for future videos that sudden random loud sounds are annoying.
Thanks for this video... but now I have a question about shooting the stars... do you want to be darker or brighter? TIA
I accidentally hit exposure compensation all the time on my Sony A6600
How can I manually adjust shutter speed on EOS R while in manual mode? thanks.
That “DING” is way too loud and distracting from the instructions.
To anyone with tinnitus reading this before watching the video, avoid it immediately. It gave me a headache.
Re-upload without the counter please. It was extremely distracting
Make a sense... Excellent tutorial... I needs to work on that features but I hasn't messing with it for years. Hand gestures are fine without sound effects like air quote. Notification pinging in my ears was unnecessarily but can be heard someone else notification goes off in the background. Nice work, David. Rock star photography (maybe). 🤘🏻 📷 📸
Mr. Bergman - Is exposure correction an alternative to a neutral-density filter? If so, when might you use a ND filter or when might you use Exposure Correction? Thanks for the videos.
I wouldn’t use a filter for something you can simply control with exposure. The goal should always be to get the exposure that’s “correct” for you. ND filters can help when you need to go beyond what you can do with exposure. For example, if you want a very slow shutter speed for running water on a tripod. Something like 10 seconds. You can put your ISO as low as it will go and close down your aperture as much as the lens will allow and still have too much light at 10 seconds. So put an ND over the lens to block some of the light from entering the lens.
Thanks for the prompt response. I get it. Gotta say if I need help in the range of 1 to 3 stops, exposure correction looks easier and faster to deal with, especially hand held.
The indicating of your quotation with the bell was annoying and distracting from actually trying to absorb the information. Try not to do that anymore. I'm sure it was a decent video in terms of info but couldn't finish it.
In other words the exposure button controls shutter speed thus controlling the duration of light entering the camera. Case closed.
If exposure compensation does not appear in viewfinder mode, how do I solve it so that it appears again, please answer sir
because this is the first time I experience it, I am a Canon user
this was way too annoying with the dings, like everyone said, but also has so much unnecessary detail rather than getting to the actual point. the information is worth a 2-3mins read.
Sooo annoying the ding noise! What was the point of this video? To show how many times he did the air quotes or to explain about exposure compensation?
Brilliant - Just what I needed. Thanks
Good lesson but my god that counter ding sound effect needs to have been lowered so it not hurting my ears. It like the sound clip was dropped on the timeline with no audio adjustment to your voice level.
Thank you so much!
if i were you I would limit the use of bell sounds, they are really taking the focus out of the topic.
Was just shooting a football game 3 days ago. Was talking with a student photographer on sidelines about this very subject & few more items. Told her last year to watch videos on this channel for tips which she says she does.
During game was discussing how metering works in cameras & for her to take control of exposure for how she wants her images to look & not let camera decide always. Hope she watches this video because she will have to laugh since we just talked about this subject... great timing David 👍
If she (Fe......) sees this... Like I told you great tips here... hope to see you again for playoff games.
And again the timing couldn't have been better for this video, lol ✌️
Very informative but your air quote count interruptions were incredibly annoying.
Tnx for this video, just don't put the sound '' ding '' when you talk in '' " . It's annoying.
How does it works in Manual mode. In D850, we increase or decrease exposure compensation. I didn't get this thing in Manual modern.
In manual, you pick all the settings and the camera doesn’t change anything.
best question ever 🤣
I couldn't watch this. counting the quotes and too much waffle, just get to the point please.
That Bell sounds are annoying 🙄. Nicely done.
All the "information" in this video is "properly" explained.
Whats the value of using this I guess is my question? It doesn't do anything that you couldn't change yourself in the main settings
Interesting...I use manual but with auto ISO (wildlife/nature shots) so Exposure Compensation does have an impact. In that case, is it adjusting ISO to compensation? Canon R5 is my primary.
In manual, auto ISO will only change the ISO. If you’re on aperture priority, you set the aperture and pick an shutter speed (in the settings) so that, if the camera wants to go lower than that speed, it will start to adjust ISO instead.
Lots of Ding sounds. Ended up muting volume and just read the captions
You explained very well but that ding is very annoying
Couldn’t finish watching this. Those dings were so annoying
very nice info.. esp on M what exposure does.. i got my answer..
I've enjoyed this recent series of videos. Would you be willing to talk about handling white balance/color in mixed lighting situations? I am a hobby photographer who shoots candids of family members indoors and struggle to deal with the mix of window light and interior lighting.
Sure! Send it to www.AskDavidBergman.com :)
A big thumb up to you David. Even I don’t natively speak English and have very little knowledge about photography, I understood the lesson easily
Probably took more time to edit in all those dings than it would have to just record again and sit on your hands 😎
Hi sir...how to use speedlight while shooting in AV/TV mode
Annoying air quotes counting. It has no significance to the topic, just annoying pauses.
Extremely helpful and great. Thank you for this. When I'm in Av Mode, my camera changes both the shutter speed and ISO. In this video, the camera is automatically adjusting shutter speed and not ISO. Is this because you have set your ISO instead of having it on auto ISO? Thanks.
Any complaints yet, David, for encouraging COVID-era day drinking by counting your "finger quotation marks"? 😉. Oh, yeah! Great video! Thank you.
Legal and safe day drinking is encouraged! :)
Oh my God. Why do we need to know how many times you use air quotes. Just get to it already.
Very interesting. I always wondered that even though I’ve never used it. However, you brought up something I didn’t know. I just purchased an R6 and use it to shoot my son playing ice hockey. I am in full manual and usually set the metering to partial metering. You mentioned the R6 has a different metering process. Should I use something else for my metering?
The bell sound drove me crazy I could finish the video.
He quoted everything but "The Bard"!!