Arches and other Utah Nat Parks: a photo tip
(Dear Moderator -- I posted this item in the National Parks forum because it is about the particular problems I encountered when taking photos in the southwestern national parks. If it is in the wron...
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Tvov wrote:
Another thing it has taken a long time to learn is to check the dial on top of our camera that changes settings. Where it is on the camera makes it very easy to be turned/changed when taking the camera in and out of its case or a pocket.
Checking your camera's settings on a regular basis is an essential habit to form. The one setting I often forget to reset is exposure compensation after adjusting for indoor shooting. As your photos seem to be under exposed, this may have been part of your exposure problem.
I live in southwest Utah and have taken many photos without exposure problems with my Nikon D5000 when the settings are correct for the lighting at the time of shooting.
