The Photography Thread

[SlimKlim]

Bracketing:
This is where the camera will take different EV steps (you can set). For example it'll take a picture -1, 0 and +1. That way, theoretically, you have a full range and no blowouts. It's common with HDR and astrophotography. I use it as a backup in case (you'll want a tripod for this)

Active D-lighting:
It's a Nikon thing that is used in high dynamic ranges. It'll bump shadows and bring down highlights if I had to guess. I would just shoot RAW and edit in Lightroom and you could achieve the same if not better image.

Metering:
Metering is how the camera reads the light. If you have it set to 0EV and metered for the whole image I believe it takes the average to guess the correct exposure. If you have it on a single point (like I do) it'll take what your focus point it and ensure that that is metered at 0EV (or whatever you keep it at). From my research and in the field I almost always keep it at -.7 or -.3 EV.

So if I use bracketing without HDR turned on I'll get 2-3 seperate image files every time I press the shutter?

Sounds like I want to leave ADL alone and mess with metering and see what gives me the best results.

I'm mostly just shooting stuff directly to share, I don't know if it's worth the disk space of shooting raw if I'm not really planning on doing crazy editing. I also don't have a work computer with photoshop anymore, so I'm doing all my editing in GIMP. I guess I can just set it to capture both file types, I've got 2 64GB cards for it.

I'll check out those 50mms, probably gonna wait and cool off a bit before i start blowing money on lenses.