Remember to Bracket
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 8:12PM | Tom S. On our last photography walk I got into a discussion at one point with Bruce ;)
1/200, 3.5, ISO 100
about 'Bracketing'. I wasn't using that technique at all, not even the camera's ability to bracket let along just shooting multiple shots varying some settings on the camera.
I thought, I know that, I had just gotten lazy. Here are three shots of the mushrooms that I placed in my gallery for that day.
All three of the photographs are JPGs created from RAW files and are untouched. I figured this would give us the best chance to observe any differences between them. You can click on any of them to enlarge them.
What I did do was shoot three shots re-focusing each time, I was worried about focus more then anything else.
;)
1/125, 3.5, ISO 100The camera was set for Aperture Priority with the FStop of 3.5 select for all three shots. The ISO set to auto, remained consistent for all three shots too.
Because the Aperture was fixed at 3.5 the camera adjusted the shutter speeds from 1/125 to 1/160 to 1/200 of a second for whatever reason, possibly the clouds were varying the light between shots. Again I don't believe I had the camera doing any bracketing, but whatever the situation it gave me three different exposures.
(Maybe this is a reason why a journal might come in handy, what was exactly done on that day and why?)
;)
1/160, 3.5, ISO 100When I got these shots back to the computer and looked at them in Lightroom. I settled on the top photograph because the focus was a bit sharper. This was exactly what I was worried about. The last photograph to the right here, had the bottom mushroom a bit on the soft side.
So as I said in our last meeting, the word that I (re)learned on our Photography Walk was 'Bracket'! If you are digital, it costs nothing.
After selecting the top photograph I used in Lightroom to touch it up. I increased the contrast a bit. I very slightly increased the saturation, vibrance and clarity and sharpened it just a tad. Check out the results in my gallery for our first photography walk.
Bracketing in Technique