I know my camera very well and I have to admit that I use my experience to find the right exposure. However, these 4 suggestions can improve exposure skills.
Getting exposure right can seem simple, but it's even easier to get it slightly wrong. While being marginally overexposed or underexposed can be rescued, having blown out highlights or completely black shadows means the details will be unrecoverable. Here are four ways to monitor exposure properly on location. From the day I bought my first camera until the day I understood how to read a histogram is an embarrassingly large gap. I knew it wouldn't be particularly difficult to learn and yet I didn't even really bother to put the time in, and to my detriment might I add. But histograms aren't our only tool these days and if you're a videographer using an external monitor, for instance, you have other brilliant methods. My personal favorite of the four mentioned in this video is Zebra Pattern. It's a function — which can be tweaked as to exactly what it covers — that highlights areas that are above or below exposure thresholds. That is, you can set it so that whenever a highlight is blown out, zebra stripes will overlay and show you exactly what has gone too far. What's your preferred method of monitoring your exposure while out shooting?
https://fstoppers.com/education/4-ways-monitor-exposure-while-out-field-547907
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