1. Explain the purpose of metering and exposure compensation
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Metering and Exposure Compensation
Learn to recognise when the meter is misled and correct brightness quickly.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to recognise when the meter is misled and correct brightness quickly
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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why metering and exposure compensation matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to recognise when the meter is misled and correct brightness quickly.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Photograph a bright and a dark subject at zero, minus one and plus one exposure compensation.
Safe and responsible practice: Change one setting at a time and review sharpness at useful magnification.
Practical activity
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Photograph a bright and a dark subject at zero, minus one and plus one exposure compensation.
Good-practice checklist
Important detail is acceptably sharp
Exposure protects the intended highlights
Complete the practical activity for metering and exposure compensation
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant
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