What Is Exposure Compensation, How Do I Use It? And Why Is It So Useful?

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What Is Exposure Compensation, How Do I Use It? And Why Is It So Useful?  Hi and welcome to Episode 111 of the Photography Explained podcast.

I’m your host Rick, and in each episode I will try to explain one photographic thing to you in plain English in less than 10 minutes (ish) without the irrelevant details. What I tell you is based on my lifetime of photographic experience. And not Google.

Before I go on I need your help. I need your questions to answer. More on this at the end.

Here is the answery bit.
Exposure compensation allows photographers to quickly make a photograph lighter or darker by increasing or decreasing the exposure. Exposure compensation is used where the camera does not interpret the light in a scene correctly, or where the photographer wants to change the exposure from that selected by the camera for creative reasons.

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Episode 112 - Is HDR Photography Bad? Is It Ok To Use It? Or Is It Cheating?

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