K10D - One way to get the right exposure…Bracketing

Exposure Bracket Mode

One undeniable way to get properly exposed pictures is to bracket the exposure. Bracketing is described as taking several shots of the same subject with variable exposure settings ranging from underexposed to overexposed frames. The term “frames” comes from the film camera era and can be replaced with the word “files” in the digital world we now live in. You can take three or more shots of the same subject with a different exposure setting for each shot. This increases the probability of getting a properly exposed picture significantly. Just think of what it can do for HDR photography!

The K10D even has a dedicated button just for bracketing. (Full story and "How-to" on my blog site. http://pentaxdslrs.blogspot.com/ )

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I really appreciate your visit,

Yvon Bourque

For me this technique seems alien. I like to get it right myself rather than use a machine gun technique and hope one shot turns out to be correct. I guess there are situations where you won't always have time to get it right first time and you know in which direction to bracket to cover the range so that's OK by me. I'm lucky enough not to have an external patron demanding results from me, only my own criticisms drive me.

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Steve

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Nice blog with lot of information!
Thanks for sharing.

PS: you have a broken (wrong) link in your profile:
http://http//www.k10dbook.com
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http://www.k10dbook.com

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Bela from Hungary
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nbela said:

Nice blog with lot of information!
Thanks for sharing.

PS: you have a broken (wrong) link in your profile:
http://http//www.k10dbook.com
--- instead of:
http://www.k10dbook.com

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Bela from Hungary
http://www.speopixel.hu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbela/

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Thank you for pointing this out. I got it fixed.

just bought K10D with FA35 as my first digital SLR and your blog is a very helpful place to start and learn.

Thank you.
DGM
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K10D + FA 35 2.0

I don't usually bracket since I'm not usually on a tripod, and sometimes I'm more interested in "bracketing" aperture than exposure, but the "machinegun" approach can be required depending on what you shoot.

For portraits, getting it right the first time makes sense. Same for architecture (interior).

I'm a nature & landscape shooter. A dewy leaf may get tipped over by a breeze while I'm watching histograms, and, like last week, the sun may keep rolling in and out, giving just a few seconds for the shot you want, so I tend to manually "bracket" around a lot.

When using raw, I don't TOO often worry about underexposures unless severe.

I use bracketing all the time...

I find my GX10 underexposes between o.5 & 1 stop so normally I use the exposure compensation to adjust this & then as a "safety net" bracket the exposures -1 & +1 stop.

I find this extremely useful when taking sunrise/sunset shots as lighting changes so quickly & it's sometimes the case that the bracketed version is the one I use

Simon

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North Wales photographs - Snowdonia & Anglesey