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What is Bracketing
I am a beginner and I was wondering what it means to bracket.
February 25, 2004
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Bob Cammarata |
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Bracketing means to shoot two or more additional shots of a particular scene at slightly different settings... both over, and under what is determined as the "ideal" exposure. Typically, this is done with the aperture ring. If the scene requires 1/250 second at f-8, the shutter speed remains unchanged, but you would shoot at f-5.6, f-8, and f-11.
This would be a bracket of one stop over and under, although it is usually best to use smaller increments of 1/2 stop either way. Bracketing is most often used during difficult lighting situations to insure that at least one of the three shots in the series is properly exposed.
February 24, 2004
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