This month's quick tip covers dealing with different lighting in the same image and you don't have a flash to balance the exposures. For example: your out shooting in the woods and you see a flower in the shade but you want to frame it with trees and use the sky as a backdrop. You have the exposure at the flower and the exposure of the sky. One thing you can do is get the exposure of the sky then get the exposure of the flower. Now split the difference between the two. You'll be slightly under exposed on the sky and slightly over exposed for the flower.
The quickest way to do this is set your camera meter to spot, point it at the flower and zero out your meter. You then point it at the sky and zero it out but make sure you count the number of stops as you change them. You can then go back the other way but you will only go half the way. For example you zero out the flower then you count as you zero out the sky. Say there are 6 stops between them. You would then adjust back 3 stops frame your shot then shoot. The example I used here is not the greatest photo but it demonstrates the technique rather well. The photos are of some stuff in my bedroom window and the pillows on my bed with the window for the background. I did not do any post production on the images. The first shot is exposed for the inside stuff. The second for outside and the third is exposed in between the two. I know you can use an HDR Program to get a good image but if you don't have access to one this technique will work in a pinch.
All images were shot at ISO 1250 and an aperture of f/16.
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| Shutter Speed of 1/40 |
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| Shutter Speed of 1/1250 |
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| Shutter Speed of 1/320 |
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The difference between the exposure here is very extreme, almost 6 stops difference between the two areas and I lost some details on the jars and the darker colored items, but the closer the difference the better your results will be. From here you can fine tune your exposure as well to get a better balance between the two.
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