Hi,
Last night in the photography evening class I have just started we spent a fair bit of time discussing exposure. We did the whole photograph the white black and grey cards and they all come out the same colour thing.
What has confused me is my tutor was explaining that sometimes you may need to compensate for what the camera will do. For example if you were photographing a very dark skinned man with dark hair the camera automatically picks up that this subject is very dark and compensates for that by overexposing, sometimes too much. Therefore in these circumstances it is sometimes best to underexpose to get a correct exposure.
Similarly if you were photographing trees covered in very white snow the camera picks up that this is very bright and therefore underexposes so you may choose to overexpose slightly to get a correct exposure.
My question is
A) is this correct?
B) I'm now panicing that I need to slightly underexpose everything really dark and overexpose everything really light. Is this just in extreme circumstances? if the meter looks right can I go with this most of the time and adjust in Photoshop or do I need to always take the above into consideration?
I'm interested in your thoughts in this,
Thanks in advance
Dan
Last night in the photography evening class I have just started we spent a fair bit of time discussing exposure. We did the whole photograph the white black and grey cards and they all come out the same colour thing.
What has confused me is my tutor was explaining that sometimes you may need to compensate for what the camera will do. For example if you were photographing a very dark skinned man with dark hair the camera automatically picks up that this subject is very dark and compensates for that by overexposing, sometimes too much. Therefore in these circumstances it is sometimes best to underexpose to get a correct exposure.
Similarly if you were photographing trees covered in very white snow the camera picks up that this is very bright and therefore underexposes so you may choose to overexpose slightly to get a correct exposure.
My question is
A) is this correct?
B) I'm now panicing that I need to slightly underexpose everything really dark and overexpose everything really light. Is this just in extreme circumstances? if the meter looks right can I go with this most of the time and adjust in Photoshop or do I need to always take the above into consideration?
I'm interested in your thoughts in this,
Thanks in advance
Dan