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What to do when auto exposure doesn’t work

June 2, 2009 by Steve Berardi 5 Comments

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi
If you haven’t ventured into the world of manual exposure yet, then you may have noticed that auto exposure doesn’t always work too well. Sometimes changing your metering mode can help, but if that fails, what do you do?

Fortunately, there’s another method that can help you get that perfect exposure, while still avoiding the world of full manual. This method is known as bracketing exposures. [Read more…] about What to do when auto exposure doesn’t work

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips Tagged With: auto exposure, autoexposure, bracket exposure, bracketing, exposing photos, how to expose photographs, Landscapes, manual exposure, metering mode, perfect exposure, technique

How to get this photo – Oregon Coast

February 6, 2009 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi

This photo is from the Oregon coast, at a state park about an hour north of Bandon.

Oregon has some really hard sand, so there’s always a thin layer of ocean water residing on top of it. This creates some really amazing reflections of the sunset, as pictured in this photo. The blue you see on the top of the photo is an ocean wave coming in.

There were two keys to getting this photo:
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Filed Under: Landscapes Tagged With: how to photograph the coast, Landscapes, oregon, oregon coast, pacific ocean, sunset

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