Exposure Bracketing

Exposure Bracketing from the ground up. — Western King

Exposure bracketing is a technique where, instead of taking a single photo, you take three (or more) that are all exposed slightly differently; normally one is correctly exposed, one slightly underexposed, and one slightly overexposed. It’s in quite a few situations, so let’s look at how it works.

We experimented with the exposure bracketing inside the school, testing the different settings on the camera. Trying light and dark images by playing with the exposure, but changing the numbers on the ‘M’ setting. Changing the numbers lower e.g -2 the darker the image will be, if the image was +2 it would make the image over exposed.

Canon 5D Mark III display showing exposure compensation settings

There, you’ll be able to adjust the exposure compensation, as well as the bracketed shots. In the image above, I have my camera set up to take one underexposed shot, one overexposed shot, and one shot as metered. Depending on your camera, there may also be additional options to set what order the shots are taken and whether there are three, five, or even seven frames.

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