newbie trying to learn about exposure

[adavem]

i am reading peterson's understanding exposure which everyone here recomends and i have a big question.all off the exersises say set camera on manual,set to certain f stop,adjust shutter speed untill you reach the proper exposure and take your picture.i only own 1 camera....canon a620.how do you tell when you reach the correct exposure?am i missing something simple here or what?

[Stefan A]

Various cameras display this information differently. On my S2, there is a number in the upper left hand corner of the view finder (from -2 to +2) which indicates exposure. To get the exposure, adjust aperture and/or shutter and/or iso until that number indicates 0.

Stefan

[cool_dude07]

Not bad advice...but sometimes what the camera thinks is right exposure is not always what you want to be exposed...

Ty

[dinobike]

Hi adavem...as cool dude says, there's situations that will challenge you, and even if you're exposure says +-0 you could be overexposing a shot. So you have the second opinion in your histogram and finally the visual confirmation seeing the photo after you take it, so you can compensate de exposure if it needs.

I let you and example of some shots cropped at 100% that i take the other day....the first one the exposure says that i have a -2 exposure and even so i overexpose the face of the singer...the second one i adjust the shutter and got a more balanced exposure.

:cool: