Digital Bracketing

[Primevci]

i notice some people use "bracketing" to get nice shots by combing 3 photos is there a guide for this? also i see something in the rebel menu about braceting does this automatically add the 3 shots and become 1? or does it jsut take 3 shots at diff EC amounts and you half to do something in PS. what im askign is there a guide to read up on to help me with this?

[Jesper]

Here's a tutorial which shows a few different ways to do this with Photoshop: Understanding Digital Blending (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml) from Luminous Landscape.

The bracketing mode on the 300D (and many other cameras) makes 3 shots with different exposures. The camera does not automatically combine them for you. You get 3 photos (one correctly exposed, one overexposed, one underexposed) which you can combine yourself in PS.

[Primevci]

OH thank you very much looks like exactly what im looking for ill look more into it tommrow when im at home thanks you very much...

[Primevci]

anyone lese the more info i get the better off i am...

[dhbailey]

You have to take the three pictures yourself, remember. The camera won't take a 3-shot burst for you. That is, if it works like the 20D works.

That's important to remember, because it will be easy to forget you're trying to bracket the pictures and might take one or two pictures and then move onto a different subject to photograph and get a single picture of the new subject with an incorrect exposure.

it might be better (if the camera allows this) to simply change the EV yourself for situations you might be unsure about. I find I am turning on the 20D to the position beyond the ON position (the one with the line pointing to the thumb-dial) so that I can adjust the EV myself when I want to try a shot several different ways, and thus I don't have to remember that I have auto-bracketing turned on.

[Jesper]

You have to take the three pictures yourself, remember. The camera won't take a 3-shot burst for you. That is, if it works like the 20D works.

You can put the camera in continuous shooting mode and hold down the shutter button - if I remember correctly, it will stop after making the 3 photos when it's in bracketing mode (i.e. it will not continue shooting as long as you hold the shutter button down).

[Hatem Eldoronki]

Here is another advantage of shooting RAW: The 3-shot burst could be hard to use sometimes, for example when you don't have time to set up your tripod, or if there is a moving subject. What I do is shoot in the RAW format, and then I save two versions of the shot, one underexposed and one slightly overexposed (amount of exposure depending on the nature of the shot), then I combine them both in PS.
This is only if I couldn't bracket. Bracketing of course gives a better result..but without a tripod, and when there's a moving subject, it doesn't work as well.