From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

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Priority modes and exposure compensation

Priority modes and exposure compensation

From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

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Priority modes and exposure compensation

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- In part one of this series I asked you to shoot in program mode and as you'll recall in program mode the camera chooses a shutter speed and aperture for you. You also saw the exposure compensation control. When you dial an exposure compensation, you're telling the camera to either expose more or less than what it originally thought it should expose for. So, with exposure compensation you can say, camera, I know you think that you should expose to this point, I'd like you to do it one stop brighter. What you don't know when using exposure compensation, is how the camera is going to achieve that compensation. How it's going to get in that case one stop brighter. We talked then about how it probably makes it's adjustments through a combination of some slight ISO changes, some slight shutter speed changes, and maybe some slight aperture changes. When you're working in a priority mode, shutter priority or aperture priority, your exposure compensation control works differently. When…

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