Think Fast: Exposure Quiz!

[Arthur Morris]

So, if I was photographing another WHITE bird in the same light AS image ONE, would you still go to -1??

(BTW, "if I were..." is correct.)

That is not at all accurate. It would depend on the tonality of the background and the size and position of the white bird in the frame. And you have forgotten that there was a big black gator head in the middle of the image... If you photographed a bright white bird in the same light, however, you would likely be fine with by setting either 1/4000 or 1/3200 sec. at f/5.6 manually.

As I said, those who wish to learn exposure theory need to go back to the original "The Art of Bird Photography: and study the great chapter on exposure. Otherwise, they are doomed to fail when an amazxing situation with a challenging exposure takes place right in front of them. BTW, you are in good company; several very talented photographers flunked the quiz.

[Maxis Gamez]

(BTW, "if I were..." is correct.). BTW, you are in good company; several very talented photographers flunked the quiz.

Hi Artie,

Thank you for the correction. Glad I'm in the right path..... ;)

[Karl-Heinz Georgi]

Hi Artie,
#1 Using an EOS 1Mk3.
Because my cam is always switched to RAW and Jpeg parallell mode and Tone Priority is enabled, I would not think over for exposure comp. in that situation, but shoot, shoot.... and lateron do my corrections in DPP.
Best to you Karl-Heinz

[Arthur Morris]

Karl, By taking that approach in this situation, there is an excellent chance that you would have burned highlights that could not be recovered in DPP. And by using that approach all the time, the vast majority of your images would be well underexposed. You would be losing lots of valuable info in your files and introducing noise whenever you lightened them.