Pros Know this about Bracketing & Beginners Avoid It

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In this week’s episode, we discuss what the pros know about exposure bracketing that beginners avoid - at least I always did. When you're a beginner and just starting out with something, you don't know what you don't know - it's a bit cliche, but it's the truth. And, when I was a beginner, just getting started with photography, I fell into this trap regarding exposure bracketing or as I like to call it "over-exposure bracketing". In this video, I'll review a technique you can use to help you determine when you should and when you shouldn't exposure bracket a scene in order to save you some time both on-location and in the digital dark room. I hope you enjoy this week's video and as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.
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@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

🌟QUESTION: Is Exposure Bracketing something you regularly do?

@gwine9087 7 месяцев назад

Sometimes, I do not have a lot of time and I bracket.

@photopoeth 7 месяцев назад

Yh, you got me! if I'm lazy or don't have enough time, I'm doing it "just in case" ;)

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

All good - we've all been there!@@photopoeth

@gregtowns549 7 месяцев назад

Less and less these days. Only when needed. Was on the Lightroom HDR bandwagon for everything a while back.

@rappy90 7 месяцев назад

Typically if I bracket I'll do it manually, I'll take 3 or sometimes even 5 various exposure of my choice instead of enabling the bracket in my camera. The scenes I'll do it for are usually city skyline scenes around dusk when I want to get the nice lights of the buildings but not too bright so I can bring out the natural lighting in the sky and on the buildings. Especially when doing drone shots.

@EricMortensen27 3 месяца назад

Of all the photography RU-vidr's out there, you are my favorite because you explain things so well. This helps me better understand photo editing and taking pictures with my camera then I do with most other sources.

@TheMesomovie 7 месяцев назад

I have been saved multiple times by exposure bracketing. I been a photographer for the last 40 years and two rules have transformed everything: 1) memory is cheap. Overshooting is a gift from God's. 2) HDR that you can control makes for a technically better photo than a wildly edited and masked single photo.

@davehenson5390 7 месяцев назад

Another great video, Mark. I do agree with you that the need for bracketing has dropped significantly and I cannot remember the number times I have bracketed and not needed it after all: comparing elements of an underexposed and boosted image of the sequence versus a 'correctly exposed' image shows very little to no difference. But I would add two points - first, if you are having to do heavy shadow recovery you not only introduce noise but you also lose a lot of dynamic range in the colours which can (depending on the subject) end up looking flat and also can mean losing texture. And this is where assessing what you want from the shadows is important. Secondly, the red channel tends to blow significantly earlier than the other channels which is why relying on a luminance histogram can be risky. This can lead to significant colour shifts in things where red is dominant like sunsets and red poppies and the photo ends up being far more orange than in real life.

@RJBeacon 7 месяцев назад

Mark, definitely one of the very best explanations of “when to use exposure bracketing & when not” I’ve seen online… great job & very understanding….!

@jakemcavoy2554 4 дня назад

This presentation describes me regarding exposure bracketing everything. Thank you for the detailed explanation. Very helpful.❤😊

@thomaslilly5834 7 месяцев назад

One big problem with looking at histograms "on the scene" is that cameras only show a histogram based on the jpeg that is displayed in the screen. This even changes when you change the jpeg settings (e.g. a certain color mode like "muted" or "vivid", or a film simulation). It's very sad that camera manufacturers apparantly cannot show the "true" raw histogram like it will be displayed in a raw converter. So looking at a histogram in camera is always a rough estimate only.

@jahmalbaptiste9915 5 месяцев назад

My Fujifilm X-T3 shows a different histogram when I switch the national live view on, which is supposed to represent the raw pixels if I'm not wrong - maybe am I misunderstanding something?

@jessejayphotography 4 месяца назад

@@jahmalbaptiste9915 Natural Live View is still not a RAW representation but as far as other brands its way better than any flat profile.

@primefotoNL 4 месяца назад

You are absolutely correct. That is why there is still a purpose for a light meter. If you use a 1 degree spot meter. You can meter the highlights and the shadows and know if the scene fits the dynamic range of your camera. If it does then shoot it ETTR. I spot meter the brightest part in the scene. Usually a white cloud. The meter makes that 18% middle gray. I know that the cloud will be MG then and i need to expose more to get a white cloud again. That depends on the headroom my camera gives me above 18% middle gray. Just figure that out once. Then i expose for those extra stops of light i can gather without clipping the High lights. So if i have for instance, a headroom of 2 stops above 18% MG then i expose +2 stops longer and the cloud will be white again and not clipping. Then i will have a pure white cloud with detail in zone 7/8 and my shadows will be lifted as well from zone 2 to 4 and thus have more detail and tonality. If the dynamic range of the scene exceeds the camera i take two shots. Picture one will be ETTR for the highlights and another -2 stops or ETTL (Exposure To The Left). ETTL is the same as ETTR (Exposure To The Right), but in reverse. Now meter the darkest shadows and expose -2 stops. In the middle these two will overlap each other so all detail will be there. No need to make 7 shots bracketing for a landscape. That is why i say there is still a good use for light meters. They make live a lot easier and aren't hard to learn to use properly. No histogram can beat that precision of a light meter. If you use these methods you can get the shot almost completely dun in camera. Just shoot it like you are using chrome film while shooting in RAW. So meter it. Set it correctly, Set your White balance and compose the shot. Post processing will then be minimalistic crossing the dotting the I's and crossing the T's no mater what camera you use. This works with film or digital. This sound like a lot of work but really isn't. If i find my scene i can be dun within 2 minutes.

@RealCelticGamer 16 дней назад

I've been petitioning Fujifilm repeatedly to include a RAW histogram for when shooting in RAW mode. According to someone I know at Fujifilm UK, it's something they're looking at for the GFX range.

@RealCelticGamer 16 дней назад

@@primefotoNLGood advice 👍

@annepetry2340 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for the reminder of how important it is to pay attention to the histogram while in the field.

@An0nymousMessages 5 месяцев назад

Your description on how to read the Histogram to tell if you need to use bracketing is the most valuable piece of information I've learned in a while. Thank you very much !

@JustinBradleyPhotographer 7 месяцев назад

Just my two cents. (I shoot professionally for a major corp) Simply put exposure bracketing is a way to CYA and expand your dynamic range. It also provides a few different perspectives. I've shot with 8 different professional cameras over the past 10 years and have tallied up well over 2 million clicks, which is really not that much I get it, it could actually be closer to 7 million but I got way too busy 5 years back to keep track any longer. If you are setting up a scene and waiting for light or the environment to change, a quick bracket shot can give you a quick glimpse at how that scene will look at different levels of exposure. Sometimes it sparks an idea or highlights the way the lighting is hitting the scene and sometimes you can even find a shot while you are waiting for your shot. I get it through, the nature of photography attracts obsessive, perfectionist types who like to plan everything. I am not that guy, I'm quite the opposite and approach every shoot with an open mind. I admit that since I picked up a Z8 it seems like I am splitting hairs when I bracket, so I use it less. Especially when I am working with limited time, which is almost always the case these days.

@JustinBradleyPhotographer 7 месяцев назад

Also, I get it, you have never needed it. Some make the same argument about dual memory card slots and buying insurance. However, when 99% of your work is client driven and I mean, you are literally shooting what they want and there is no room for your ego, no room for your creative vision, there is no better way to CYA than exposure bracketing. The reality is, most of the time we photographers are working with people who have a vision and know what they want but don't know how to execute or properly describe it. In those cases, communication is everything and well if you've ever played telephone you know even the best communicators, at best, suck. Also when working with non-pros they will use terms that they don't fully understand but use them because they think it makes them appear as if they are informed. So even when you think you know exactly what your client or boss wants, you could find out after the fact they meant something else. That's why even when they say, "I only need wide shots" I always take a few details or extras because after they see the pictures they sometimes will ask, even after saying they only need wides, "do you have any closeups of ______?"

@stunod1479 6 месяцев назад

Way more than two cents. Great humble bragging, too!😅

@JustinBradleyPhotographer 6 месяцев назад

@@stunod1479 HAHAHA you think this is me bragging? Perhaps you should shut up and learn something. You have a long way to go brother and you are getting distracted with the wrong things. I've worked really hard to get here as does every other professional photographer. This is baseline for anyone in this industry. 2 million clicks is bragging? You need to get out more... And for the record I never said I wasn't wordy and I sincerely don't care, the only people who do are millenial idiots who were raised on 6 second vine videos. When you are ready to hear me brag, just reply.

@JustinBradleyPhotographer 6 месяцев назад

@@stunod1479 Hahaha thanks for that laugh, if you believe that is bragging you have a long way to go brother. This is baseline for anyone going into professional phtography. It takes well more than 2 million clicks to accumulate the 10,000 hours of experience you need before you can even consider yourself an expert. I am not an expert, but I have worked really hard to get pretty close. So perhaps you should just hold your tongue and try to learn something because I never wasted my time trolling other photographers. And when I am ready to brag, you'll know it. Have a nice day.

@PapaBradAbides 5 месяцев назад

I really appreciate the info help me understand The histogram more easily and how much different digital photography is as opposed to my film days when I did weddings and events in street photography. I'm buying a new kit and I've decided to go with Fuji XH2 and XH2S for the stacked sensor so I can shoot any kind of wildlife cuz I do birds. So this is great information for when I start doing landscapes again as I travel over the next few years. Thanks again.

@lloyddavies9228 7 месяцев назад

It would be helpful to know the purpose of exposure bracketing. For example, is it to ensure a safety shot in case your single exposure is off? Or is the purpose to provide a series of exposures +/- for creating HDR images? Or perhaps it’s for blending/composing in Photoshop. Perhaps a follow-up video demonstrating camera setup and image processing of an exposure bracketed image would be helpful.😮 Thanks.

@jdiamond9513 4 месяца назад

This is a super explanation of when to bracket or not for most people in most situations. I learned from the simple way you explained it, even though I have many years of experience in photography, but not enough in landscape photography to be more than adequate at it. I really liked your histogram explanations. The only other thing I would have like to have seen in the video is an explanation of how to determine how much you should bracket in each direction. I do it by looking at the histogram and just changing the exposure enough to move the spike off the edge and taking another picture. Sometimes, depending on if the highlights, shadows or both are clipped, it only requires one extra photo in the appropriate direction. Because of this, I don’t use auto bracketing and just manually adjust and reshoot.

@gmiddleton65 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for another great video. I always learn so much from you, especially how to process images. As a follow-up to this video, I would love to see one on how you process bracketed images. Thanks, again.

@janetholman3460 7 месяцев назад

Great timing on exposure bracketing Mark!! With the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8th of this year, I found this video to be very helpful. We all know how bright the sun can be, even nearing totality, and with this event being a lifetime event, I think using exposure bracketing will help insure that I walk away with properly exposed photos. Dealing with the extra photos in this case will be a small price to pay. Thanks for a great video!!

@triscuba17 4 дня назад

Great tutorial. I used exposure bracketing, but now will use it more well informed. I did not know about the Lightroom tips for clipping. Also, I have a very similar photo to that over your left should I took in Mukilteo, WA of a sea weed blob and a wave!!!

@maclenna001 7 месяцев назад

Nice summary review! When the dynamic range of a scene appears a bit iffy, go ahead and focus bracket - even if you think the RAW histogram *might* be OK. Go ahead and be on the safe side - because NOBODY is going to know that you 'cheated' by using focus bracketing. Take advantage of what the digital camera can do (but don't let that allow you to become lazy or sloppy). The increased dynamic range of imaging sensors in modern cameras over the past many years is quite impressive and the need for HDR, image compositing and related post-processing methods is certainly diminishing for such issues!

@GirdHerd 7 месяцев назад

Mark, Guilty as charged. I've been exposure bracketing every shot "just in case" during the last half dozen trips. I really appreciate your explanation of why and when I need to exposure bracket an image. As an exercise, I will go back to my last day trip and check the histogram of each properly exposed image to see if both sides of the histogram are clipped. I'll also check the images that show unrecoverable clipping of the shadows or highlights. Thanks for another informative video.

@SteveMcClanahan 3 месяца назад

Great information - thank you. Funny, I was comparing/contrasting your video from about 4 years ago on the subject of Exposure Bracketing with this video. You presented great tips back then that are very much valid today but clearly your philosophy has changed on when bracketing is even necessary.

@seanthompson258 6 месяцев назад

YOU CAN DO AN HDR IN LIGHTROOM!

@Superbus753 7 месяцев назад

I often do exposure bracketing in situations with a high dynamic range even when it isn’t yet 100% necessary yet. This way i get way clearer shadows on my microfourthirds cameras. Else the shadows get really noisy and difficult to clean up without loss of detail.

@davestokes3446 5 месяцев назад

I shoot Olympus and get a bit annoyed with people saying you don't need to do things with a modern pro camera. MFT cameras are brilliant in terms of cost, size and weight but benefit enormously from exposure bracketing t make up for the 4 stops less dynamic range.

@davestokes3446 15 дней назад

I'm exactly the same. 5 shots per button press in a fraction of a second, LR automatically puts each set in a stack which can then be quickly blended in LR.

@altrujillo3566 6 месяцев назад

Tremendous and valuable video - excellent explanation of exposure bracketing. Thanks Mark!!

@sunilkumargopinathanpillai4888 3 месяца назад

Another great vedio Mark

@jonathantharp9425 7 месяцев назад

I generally do not exposure bracket due to the fact I was unsure when it was needed. Now thanks to this video I have a guide. Thanks for sharing this helpful information.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Glad to do it!

@thedarkslide 7 месяцев назад

It boils down to understanding the dynamic range of a scene and how camera limitations might apply to it. I shoot a lot with Sigma's Foveon cameras and their dynamic range is extremely limited - so bracketing is very often required. The histogram /barely/ lies.

@MarcosSanchess 5 месяцев назад

I don't know how, but you really sound like Jack Ryan from the Amazon Prime series. Your look and way of saying, very trippy.

@cmichaelhaugh8517 4 месяца назад

I rarely bracket with the intention of creating an HDR shot. Mostly I like to pick the best of three as a good spot to begin editing with the fewest adjustments and minimal degrees of adjustment. I think that gives me the best end result even when HDR is not needed.

@joekelly9369 4 месяца назад

If you need to bracket as a manual shooter , its your choice of aperture or shutter , if you want to bracket and keep the aperture the same flip the finger = shutter up or down a few clicks , if you need to keep the shutter speed =thumb aperture up or down a few clicks , manual gives you a choice of which way you want to do it

@lylestavast7652 4 месяца назад

I wish vendors would inside their bracket setup allow a highlights with detail and bottom with detail exposure grab mode - without having to play around. I use the preserve highlights on my Nikon and then do a -2.5 and it seems to get me good results - but really the camera firmware could sense and do that automatically. Same with focus stacking - should be a mode where you can specify near point and a far point and how many in between and have it go do it.... no throw aways from shooting to infinity etc... just my opinion, which is generally wrong for some purist reason to almost everyone else. Good explanation on the technique and when to use it, when not....

@markallemang7745 7 месяцев назад

I have tended to bracket most of the time. But I've been doing it much more selectively recently. On one trip I had thousands and thousands of photos that weren't needed. Those took disk space, and took a lot of time to weed through. And many of the + images were blurry because of camera or subject movement. So this was a timely video. Thanks for the perspective.

@DavidCrooksPhotos 7 месяцев назад

Yes, I exposure bracketing most of the time. It is a habit from shooting HDR back in the day. It does triple the exposures and I do clean up some of the photos not needed.

@wildflower20102 7 месяцев назад

Thank you. This was really informative! Now I truly understand why blown out highlights are a problem.

@jerrykita8767 7 месяцев назад

Great video Mark. I have followed a very similar progression. In Colorado, as you might remember, I bracketed everything. In the Dolomites, I rarely bracketed anything and if I did it was for good reasons.

@bretedge 7 месяцев назад

I’ve been a pro for over 20 years and I bracketed often when shooting Velvia and in the early days of digital. But, over the last few years I rarely do it because most scenes are easily recorded by the sensor. When the dynamic range is too high, I’ll bracket and manually blend images using Sean Bagshaw’s outstanding techniques.

@galacticnemesis366 7 месяцев назад

God bless you man. You are a great example of what each individual can accomplish no matter where they came from as long as they dig down and try their ass off. 😎👊👍🇦🇺

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Thank ya my friend!

@RinJERKS 7 месяцев назад

Another great and helpful video, Mark! I was doing some research into my trusty old Nikon d5200 and It has about 9 steps of dynamic range. It is an 11 year old camera without a live histogram, and I'm not aware of any clipping warnings for my camera. The best I can do is to view the histogram after I take the photo and look for the sings that you mentioned here and then decide if I need to bracket. You make the valid argument about having to sort through triple the pics but I tend to take pics of hand gestures on either side of a bracketed group of images, panoramas and focus-stacked images. I've only ever done one bracketed image that I would consider worthy of exposition, as I struggle with getting to locales to apply many of the things I've learned watching your channel, Once again, great video! -Rick Wisniewski

@Xetenor 7 месяцев назад

Great video Mark! Really appreciate the time you took to explain when to know if you should bracket. I think in general most of us need to pay more attention to the histogram on our camera on the field that will give you an idea of the whites and blacks being on the extreme but sometimes we get a bit too caught up in the moment or forget. I myself exposure bracket probably a bit too much and always end up having to delete unused photos. Histogram is such a powerful tool.

@grahamowen4336 6 месяцев назад

Another great video Mark, but I noticed that in the later half of the video you constantly refer to avoiding spikes, where you actually mean avoiding spikes that have no gap between the the spike and the edge of the histogram - in other words clipping, a word which you also use in the video. Spikes that are fully within the histogram boundaries, as you know, are fine.

@bobgwaltneyphotography3899 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video and the advice for what to do in the field to prevent blowouts and ID when bracketing is needed!

@festerbestertester1658 7 месяцев назад

Use bracketing in combination with exposure stacking, aka HDR. Or, for landscape shots, use a graduated ND filter.

@roryfunkedub 7 месяцев назад

When I first learnt about bracketing, I did it almost all the time. A few months later I stopped and only lean on it when I know I have those super high dynamic range photos that one exposure won't nail.

@dronepilotcontractors4094 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Mark! Great tips for knowing the WHEN rather than just a guess!

@eyedears 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Mark. Excellent video which perfectly clarified how and when to use bracketing. Having seen another video which recommended it's regular use, I used the technique for most of my landscapes last year when visiting Norway. I didn't need most of the photos when it came to processing, so I learnt the lesson you have beautifully summarised in your video. Thanks again.

@philbrown8181 3 месяца назад

Thanks Mark, some very helpful information and insight there.

@byoregon1 7 месяцев назад

I use all the color and tone histograms to make my judgements on bracketing in the field. My gripe is that, since the in-camera histograms are based on the JPEG rendition, I find myself having to guesstimate whether it's actual clipping or will I really have more room in the RAW data. The camera certainly knows the actual distribution of tones in the RAW data - why don't companies give us the option to display *that* histogram rather than the JPEG-based version?

@neilboggin3346 7 месяцев назад

Agreed & it will also depend camera or style you're working with. Raw will give 2 more stops of dynamic range.

@tommynikon2283 4 месяца назад

I bracket everything; longtime habit- 44 years commercial work. Started as a newspaper PJ; then mags….and the FIRST RULE is….GET THE SHOT! Whatever it takes. I shoot RAW/JPG large for everything. I delete all RAWS after my final picks; the remainder of jpegs are then downsized for storage. I’m also not a landscape shooter, so your mileage and methods may vary.

@meloche1syndrome 7 месяцев назад

I also for a very short time exposure bracketed frequently. Shooting in raw and editing removes most of the need. There are times in landscape that i bracket and combine very dark and light to help expand the dynamic range, but,. Seldom

@rpdigital17 7 месяцев назад

On my photorgraphy course my teacher taught me that we should never overexpose image, because overexposured areas have information lost, while underexposed areas can be recovered. Probably this why your camera shows highlights or "zebras", so youcanavoid them, right? Bracketing is something for landscape and property photography I guess, but I think it is not necessary to bracket as our camera are so good at dynamic range of the image already and for HDR image you can make -2, -1, +1, +2 exposure copies of your image and mix them together in the software.

@georgehatzipantelis4642 6 месяцев назад

Amazingly educational videos Mark

@xFreyelis 6 месяцев назад

I wonder when is the time we will have built-in HANDHELD HDR Bracketing like we do on Smartphones. Example is Google Nightsight or HDR+ where you can get HDR images from multiple shots handheld without ghosting, so no tripods needed. If we had something similar especially on the newer Global Shutter (A9III), handheld, and body does the combining of images... It would truly be game changing.

@rlfisher 7 месяцев назад

Great analysis and presentation of the topic. I almost always took "insurance" brackets in my early days, but mostly abandoned that as I learned more (as you point out) about interpreting the histogram. Image review is much faster now! Good stuff!

@rhonaldjr 7 месяцев назад

Wonderful video and a reminder for me to put efforts into exposure bracketing. Also, i used to focus stack everything at one time begore slowing down. Nice to see the underrated GF 100-200mm which is my staple for landscape theese days. Soft on the longest focal length, but not a deal breaker.

@pauldarville3843 7 месяцев назад

Informative, Thanks Mark!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Paul!

@breesephoto 7 месяцев назад

Fantastic! I use my histogram religiously but this helps me see it (and understand it) in a different way.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Great to hear it was helpful!

@ivaneberle3972 6 месяцев назад

Cameras have 13.5-17 stops of dynamic range but usually only at base ISO. Histograms are approximations based on JPEGs, and they're 8-bit, not as useful as zebras. 1000:1 lighting is 10 stops. Outdoors, unless you've got glare from the sun glinting off ice and deep shadows (drone or mountain snowscapes), bracketing is over- hyped. Two bracketed 12-bit shots would get anything, but cheap memory and drag and drop trivializes matters

@rlau68 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Mark! Very helpful insight 👍

@kaleightucker5479 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this video. I've had issues understanding when to exposure bracket or not and this video helps me to better understand this. I will be implementing this next time I go out with my camera.

@ppgforme 7 месяцев назад

Thanks, Mark. This helped in better understanding the histogram in relation to the image in Lightroom, including in-camera usage before taking the photo. Great instructional video.

@austinhopson9098 7 месяцев назад

Well explained Mark, i am sure i will try the Exposure Bracketing more (when needed)when pushing the extremes at both ends (shadows and Highlights). Thank you

@DonDickinson-o9o 7 месяцев назад

You always explain everything so well. Very easy to understand. I'm very curious about HDR monitors, and how they affect exposure and printing.

@RedSinter 2 месяца назад

😂 Mark this is part of the consideration for the Flow Chart idea I posed to you in another video. History Graphs perplex me getting them up and and comparing them to the image I wanted and the one it suggested based on its reading. In a number of cases what suggested didn't give me the test image I'd make as compared to the one I wanted and got. ?

@NigelCowderyPhotography 7 месяцев назад

Awesome video Mark. Very useful and yes i have been known to bracket WAYYYYY too much. So will be using this information when i shoot this weekend and hoping to speed up my shoots rather than spending too much time in one spot and bracketing unnecessarily... thankyou... great video and easy to understand.

@cmichaelhaugh8517 7 месяцев назад

I rarely exposure bracket to deal with HDR situations, especially now that adjusting the sky separately from the foreground is so easy in Lightroom. However, I routinely do 3 shot brackets as insurance that I have a good starting point and I (or the camera) have not missed-judged something that I later see in post. It takes virtually no time to do so and the worst downside is the extra space taken by the two files I don’t use. That said, on occasion, I have even gone back and used one of those files in a re-edit process.

@peterharris7682 5 месяцев назад

You made no mention of ND Grad filters which is my preferred method of dealing with this. I have just purchased the OM1 Mk2 which has electronic ND Grad built in which not only works but is easy to use.

@EnigmaSolution 4 месяца назад

Really great video !! So clear ... THANKS a lot !

@richardsmith5021 7 месяцев назад

Great advice. Straight forward and explained very clearly. Thanks.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Richard!

@chrishall6364 7 месяцев назад

Thanks very much Mark; the need to exposure bracket may also be avoided by using graduated neutral density filters. Another technique I have used is just to expose one image for the sky, then one for the land and blend them in Photoshop using luminosity masking.

@peoplez129 7 месяцев назад

Even a polarizing filter can negate the need to exposure bracket, because most the polarized light comes from the sky, so you can effectively reduce the brightness of the sky in the image, allowing you to expose more toward shadows. It's not super massive, but enough to give some extra headroom.

@natepotter6911 7 месяцев назад

Great vid as usual, Mark! Hope you and yours are well!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Nate!

@robertjohnston8739 7 месяцев назад

The lroblem with the in camera histogram is that it is derived from the in-camera processed jpeg. The highlight end is usually fairly accurate but the shadow end is not

@Life.After.Retirement 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for taking the time to do this video. I found this very helpful!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Great to hear!

@rugsack2005 7 месяцев назад

Very informative and definitely going to apply to my photography

@MarcoBordo3333 4 месяца назад

You can easily save your blown hightligh i' creating a linear mode for your camera for lightroom, if you use capture one, is build in

@marcosartori9213 5 месяцев назад

👍 Thank you ...

@DanaPushie 7 месяцев назад

Really well done explanation Mark, thank you. Yup, guilty, I do perhaps exposure bracket more than needed. I started bracketing to save time both while out shooting and to reduce the time required for editing. I don't tend to bracket if there is movement in the frame while shooting. Not sure if the fact that I'm using an APS-C camera is part of the issue.

@soundslikewater 6 месяцев назад

I want that hoodie!

@markledbury3666 7 месяцев назад

Great video Mark. Lots of great info. Now I have a better idea of when and how to exposure bracket. Thanks!😊😊

@nelsonclub7722 7 месяцев назад

I recall years a go - I was using a Mamiya RZ on a commercial shoot and the battereis in my Sekonic died - client only needed one more shot of a ballroom in a hotel - guess what I did? Exactly. 2 rolls of film 1/3rd stop increments. 1 of them had to be right. It was f8 - hence my motto to the secret of photography "F8 be there"

@BudBetz 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Mark. Bracketing has not been on my radar much but should have been in some of my photos. Your insights are most helpful. Thanks!!!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching the video Bud!

@viktorpaulsen627 25 дней назад

1. The histogram and red+blue clipped areas are from the jpeg, not the raw. That fact was not mentioned. 2. To demonstrate that exposure bracketing was necessary, he only used the 'exposure' slider in Lightroom, not the same sliders he used in the first examples (bring up shadows, bring down highlights).

@raymondjobin7673 7 месяцев назад

Excellent and very helpful. Thanks!

@MrDrelnar 6 месяцев назад

If I have ever get some overexposed highlights, I'll just use Photoshop's AI now to replace the small zones that lack info after the edit is done. That way, I can lessen the noise I get when increasing exposure for the shadows. This is one of the best uses of AI for photography in my opinion :)

@mattzr2blazer 7 месяцев назад

Great video. I had no clue there was exposure bracketing. lol.

@DaveKingMusic 7 месяцев назад

I only bracket when I’m taking high dynamic photos such as sunsets. When reviewing my image, if have blinkies on the highlights and blacks I know I need to bracket.

@aviatorman8 7 месяцев назад

Mark, I agree that exposure bracketing shouldn’t be used as a baseline. But: 1- Small over exposed areas as in the example you shared can be easily cloned over or better removed via AI in Photoshop or Lightroom 2- Noise in the shadows isn’t a problem anymore. AI denoise exists for this reason 3- Exposure bracketing in 2024 is a cave age tech. No excuse for all Japanese camera manufacturers for not implementing smart computational HDR to overcome the physical limitations of the sensor. Just think if the iPhone brain was inside a full frame body how much DR we would have. All cameras should be able to blend 10s of exposures in a split second to produce a single DNG with insane DR.

@scottrud2699 7 месяцев назад

Thank you! for the video. Light bulb moment for me....

@stigfloberghagenphotography 7 месяцев назад

Great advice. Thanks and have a nice sunday 👍

@kencawley3121 7 месяцев назад

Great useful video. Can't count the times I've bracketed and ended up only using one of the files. From what you showed, I worried too much about the shadows after ecposing to avoid blown highlights.

@eddewhurst7662 6 месяцев назад

I usually exposure bracket, does it waste much time? Very little. Getting to the location setting up your gear takes far longer, even if you are confident than you should not need to bracket, why take the chance?

@34Media 7 месяцев назад

Cheers Mark always appreciate your tips, always helpful and easy to understand. i think i do tend to use it as a backup when im shooting that just in case but slowly starting to move away form it as my confidence grows.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for always checking them out!

@lanceschill75 7 месяцев назад

Super helpful Mark😊

@rydaug79 7 месяцев назад

Don't you also have to consider noise when bringing up the shadows on images that were under exposed to capture the highlights? Isn't bracketing good for getting clean images even when the information can be recovered?

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Yep - I dig into that in this video.

@rydaug79 7 месяцев назад

@@MarkDenneyPhoto sorry was rushing through it. Must have missed it

@DjoserPhoto 7 месяцев назад

As usual, I watched the video with interest. With landscape photography as a favorite theme, deciding "to bracket or not to bracket" is an interesting topic. The next step is combining the recordings. I'm curious which method you use for this. With a one-click HDR solution or another method using the blendif option for example.

@retirewithjames6745 7 месяцев назад

Very helpful information! You explained it well. Thanks,

@MarkDenneyPhoto 7 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it James!

@Luigi13 7 месяцев назад

Whith those extremes of exposures I can use a graduated filter yes? It will allow me to darken the highlits and to raise some of the shadow, instead of shooting three frames.

@martinthody9335 7 месяцев назад

I used to bracket every landscape. As I became more experienced I use it less and less.

@ThomasMatthewEvans 7 месяцев назад

Fantastic video! On my Sony A7 you can review the clipped areas ... I believe someone affectionately calls them "blinkies"

@kennethnielsen3864 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing.

7 месяцев назад

Very good video! Thx. Would have been perfect if you had talked about the consequence on colours when using and not using exposure bracketing. Maybe in another video ^^

@curtishustace 3 месяца назад

Just curious when you DO exposure bracket if you bracket via ISO or shutter?!

@roberthummel9928 5 месяцев назад

@MarkDennyPhoto I have to say your videos are very helpful in clarifying many arcane points of digital photography. I'm relatively well informed myself, having edited the American Cinematographer Manual a couple of times. Where I do need exposure bracketing, is when taking photos of a total eclipse of the Sun in an attempt to capture the astounding dynamic range of the corona that we can witness with our eyes, but no current imaging medium (Digital or film) is able to capture in a single exposure. I've done fairly well with my eclipse photography from 2017 and this year's on April 8th. But what I have read, and seen examples of, from accomplished astral photographers, to REALLY capture the entire nuanced details of total eclipse, they recommend nine bracketed exposures. With my EOS 5D Mark IV I can automatically capture seven bracketed exposures, but not nine... I have to do that manually. Are there any Canon cameras you know of that can bracket more than seven exposures automatically? I only ask, because I have had a devil of a time searching the specs of Canon to figure it out on my own for all their camera. Leaning towards Canon because that's where my kens investments are. It's OK, if this isn't what you want to respond to. BUt again, I have watched several of your videos, and I like the way you present your subjects (even when you've had too much caffeine!).