Bought a 750D (Rebel T6i) last month - all pictures overexposed

User4527909039 wrote:

I bought a Canon 750D last month and used it for my trip to South Africa. I shot in raw format in various modes - Av, Tv, Auto etc. but all my pics are superexposed and all my trip memories are ruined. I have tried to recover a lot of pictures by adjusting the higlights and exposure in Lightroom but many pictures are so white that they are ruined for ever.

Given I have been doing photography for a few years, I am sure it is not about the settings I used.

It greatly depends what your photographic experiences are based on. If it's a point and shoot then you're in for a learning curve as dslr in the creative zone does need a bit of understanding the system, how it exposes and how you need to compensate for it.

Can somebody let me know what could be the problem. I am uploading a few pictures by converting them to JPEG as is (i.e. without any white balance or exposure adjustment) - you can see what has happened.

The first shot is set to overexpose 1 stop according to the exif info. The second is set to over expose +1/3 stop. When looking in photoshop, the average pixel values in the center reflects the exposure settings, so it's not overexposing more than it was told to.

Unless you did this on purpose you'll need to know how the exposure compensation works in combination with Av, Tv and P modes.

The metering mode is evaluative. This is a black box type of metering, there's no knowing exactly what's going on. It may be better in some cases to set it to center weighed or spot. In those modes it's more predictable and may not try to be smart and mess things up.

The pictures below are not shot in challenging conditions so I recommend spending some time learning the metering system.

Luckily you shot raw and you can, based on the pictures below, easily recover a lot of highlight detail.

Please help me out - I need to get this rectified soon as I am up for a Mexico trip soon.