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To Bracket or not to bracket
I thought this weekend I would have a go at bracketing. Having read the manual it appears that you set the bracketing to the amount you want to expose by: i.e. 1/2 or 1/3 of a stop, under and over exposed and one in the middle.
So here comes the bit I dont understand. If I am taking a Photo in Manual mode and have composed, metered, selected aperture and taken a shot which I assume is correctly exposed using the viewfinder indicator, why bracket when I can just adjust the sub command wheel to over or under expose the shot as I want? What is the difference and why is one better than the other? Nogbad |
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What if you are photographing a bird that won't hang around, bracketing would be very quick, about 1/2 s providing you are in continuous mode and you would not need manual mode. For bird shots I use partial metering but for landscapes I prefer manual. I used to use the zone system, but since going digital which has histograms, the zone system has fallen into disuse by me.
Last edited by John; 31-03-06 at 23:32. |
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I understand what you mean but as I dont take that many shots of birds i dont think it matters. I tend to be more interested in Macro and still life.
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I don't see much point in bracketing, as I aways shoot in raw, if I have problem I can aways create two tiffs from the raw file at differing exposures and blend them together
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I think your find it's a feature that dates back to the first automatic film cameras. Probably not much use these days with digital. The very rare occassions I would use it is where I am not sure what part of the scene to expose for.
Remember loads of the features on a camera are only there as a tick box in the advertising. If camera A has it so must camera B. The fact that most people will never use it is of no consequence.
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The Bracketing feature is not some dinosaur or a marketing gimmick - you may not need it every day but you should get familiar with it. Here is a tutorial showing some examples: http://luminous-landscape.com/tutori...blending.shtml I understand that the newer PhotoShop has a feature where it will take bracketed images and automatically merge them. Another article: http://www.outbackphoto.com/workshop..._03/essay.html |
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If bracketing is used for bird photography you often get three different poses and you can pick the best. Here's one I would have missed if I hadn't bracketed. True two of the shots, at least, will not have optimum exposure!
Last edited by John; 01-04-06 at 10:03. |
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I used to bracket when using slide film, as I did sometimes misjudge the correct exposure. Somtimes I would take as many as 5 frames of the same subject with varying shutter speeds. But with digital I find the histograms are accurate, and usually only take 2 exposures if that. But then again I usually photograph static objects.
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