Monday, January 5, 2009

D90 Bracketing Exposures

I know my good friend Peter will love this. But, for the rest of you who own a D90 or are looking for yet another excuse to justify your reasons for purchasing one check this video out. It shows you and tells you how to bracket your exposures. Why would you want to bracket your exposures? Well, if you are looking to produce HDR photographs, you will need to know this in-order to do so. So enjoy.

5 comments:

VanDog said...

Great find Jeff, I have played with those settings in the past, but didn't know what I was doing. That explanation was perfect for me. Thanks

Anonymous said...

I've found this feature on my D90 but the missing link is as follows -

What happens if you shoot one of three and then decide not to shoot the other two? Unfortunately, as far as I can tell you have to do a lot of twiddling to switch it off.

Is they are way to ONLY activate the bkt capability by pressing the BKT or other button as you press the shutter release?

Jeffrey Byrnes said...

Lets say you set your camera to do the bracketing. You press the bracket button and switch the bracketing mode to ON, make the appropriate settings you desire, make an exposure, but then decide you want shut it off again. How do you do this? simply press the button again and select OFF. If you shoot just one, you will have either an over exposed image or under exposed image based on the settings you have chosen. The only way to set the "bracketing feature" is by pressing the bracketing button. However, you can also just do the traditional method of bracketing to get the right exposure. If I knew exactly what your intentions were for shooting, I could give you a few more ways to achieve the exposures you're looking to get. Feel free to email me.

Anonymous said...

What mode are these done under 'M' (Manual) ? or any other ?

Jeffrey Byrnes said...

You can produce images using the bracketing feature either on full manual mode or under shutter or aperture priority. I recommend using it on manual if you are familiar with shooting and using the cameras manual settings.