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Hi,

Bracketing photos....is it best one stop or two... up and down?
Is it down to personal preference or the subject you are taking?


Thanks in advance,

Neil.
 
Depends on what you want the final output to be.
Are you bracketing for exposure, HDR, etc
 
I tend to do 5 brackets, 0.7 apart, so 2 under, proper and 2 over

You can get away with 3, and dependant on the scene's dynamic range, you might need to push to full stops, so 1 under, proper and 1 over.

Best bet is juyst to experiment and see which gives you the best look.
 
Hi Dave, thanks Tom,

It's a Nikon D7000...I have already used the bracketing function on it...using the 3 bracket with 1 stop over and under etc...as described by Tom...it was just on one of my images a church stained glassed window was not as good as I thought it might have been (it was still too bright - although the sun was on that side) using the bracketing and was wondering if I should push it to 2 stops normally?

Neil.
 
Ive never used two stops , if it was too bright still, then I;d be tempted to knock back on the higher exposure. Like I say I use 0.7, gives a good brroad tonal range to work from.
 
Excellent...thanks Tom....super help...will try it next time...much appreciated!

Neil.
 
Thanks Dave.....it was just bugging me that the window didn't turn out right!!
I just had it my head that I should probably go further down in stops...completely forgetting about the over expose side (stupid me...I know) Not sure what I was thinking!!

Neil.
 
Firefire said:
Thanks Dave.....it was just bugging me that the window didn't turn out right!!
I just had it my head that I should probably go further down in stops...completely forgetting about the over expose side (stupid me...I know) Not sure what I was thinking!!

Neil.
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Easy done Neil :thumbs: also forgot to say use AF then go into manual focus if your doing it manually as the camera may try to refocus, Oh and use a tripod
 
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Neil, I think there are some remotes that you can get which allow more bracketing options than your camera will allow. On my panos I do a few test shots to establish whether I need +/-2 +/- 1 or some other option but normally end up going +/-2 and then play around in Aperture if I need to.
 
The key point is that if you're doing HDR you need to capture the full dynamic range of the scene. If you could manage that with +/-1 AEB then it's almost certainly not a scene with a large dynamic range.

How many shots for HDR? - as many as it takes.. :thumbs:
 
Gents.....thankyou....as ever a great source of help!

Neil.
 
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