Understanding the Exposure Compensation dial is probably one of the most important things you can do to improve your photography.

An explaination of WHAT some of these semi-automatic modes are (aperture priority, shutter priority, programmed auto) and WHEN you might want to use them.

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This quick photography cheat sheet shows us how to use exposure compensation to override your camera's meter to get better results.

Photography Guide

Photos coming out too dark or bright? Try using your camera's exposure compensation feature. This article covers the why, how, and when of exposure compensation

When you use your camera in some automatic modes like Program—or one of the semi-manual modes like Aperture Priority or Shutter Speed Priority—you don’t give up total control over everything: you can still control the exposure using exposure compensation. Here’s how that works. What Your Camera’s Light Meter Sees When your camera calculates what exposure…

How Overriding Automatic Exposure Works

As you may know, cameras often get exposure wrong. The question is, what do you do when you realize that the exposure settings suggested by your camera are not right? You have two options. One is to s

Yes – two related concepts – one involving a lot of math and one pretty simple. Exposure Value (EV) is simply the combination of all shutter speeds and apertures that derive the same ex…