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Shooting manual washes a lot of stuff out

Started May 1, 2020 | Questions thread
Lemming51
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Shooting manual - it's not the camera, it's you

ToniOnatsu wrote:

Hiya! I'm still quite a rookie with photography, and I've started recently taking a lot video material. My camera is EOS 700D.

I'd like to shoot manual, as for every clip I like to set manually framerate, shutter speed, aperture, ISO and white balance. Even though I try to set these best to fit every scene, for some reason the manual setting absolutely washes a lot of information out. If I switch to just about any other mode, be it Av, Automatic etc, much of the colors get corrected. Can anyone explain why is this happening.

Capt. Obvious: "Your manual settings overexpose the scene, the auto settings don't"

Pay attention to what the auto mode is choosing for shutter/aperture/ISO and compare to your manual choices.  Or pay more attention to the meter scale as you make your settings.  You'll have to either choose a combination of shorter shutter speed, smaller (higher f-number) aperture, and/or lower ISO.

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