Comments on: EV Compensation Explained

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:02:11 +0000

Not THAT is a tip. I’ve never used the EV, but now I can see a lot of applications for it. Thanks

By: simon

simon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:18:44 +0000

ev explained brilliantly. thank you ! even put a grin on my face, unlike most of the stuffy explainations on the web ! lets see if i can put this new found understanding in practice.

By: Stano

Stano — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:51:07 +0000

Thank you!!! An excellent and succinct overview to the use of EV compensation. The photo comparisons and heading of various times to use EV was a great lookover.

By: Suz

Suz — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:28:45 +0000

I LOVED this article! Thanks so much for explaining what the ev compensation is. I’ve always been interested in photography and since I was disabled in a car accident – my camera has become my lifeline. Taking pictures is just about the only thing I can do for “entertainment” soooo….long story short, I just got a new camera (not near as fancy as yours, lol) but it has many nice features that I had NO CLUE what they were and in the users manual it just says things like you can adjust your ev compensation by doing xyz…..but it didn’t say why you’d want to or what ev compensation was. Thanks so much for writing an EASY to understand article that explains things in such a way that even the most inexperienced photographer can understand :-)

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:39:24 +0000

Does anyone know how to get the effect at the top? I know it could be done it post, but I’m talking about in camera. Thanks

By: Spike Smith

Spike Smith — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:21:37 +0000

I appreciate your good writeup on EV and those included pictures helpmake a point rather well.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:35:28 +0000

These are good pointers. I’ll have to practice this technique. The comments about being sure to put the camera back to normal mode are good pointers. I was using the bracketing on my D80 for some HDR shots and forgot to reset it for a while so only 1 in 3 shots were properly exposed. I can probably salvage most if I needed to but they were vacation shots that I was really just practicing with. now the time I left the ISO setting at 1600 for a day of shooting, that upset me as I got a lot of nicely composed noisy shots.

By: bruce

bruce — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:38:50 +0000

Great explanation of EV,as all camera meters arn’t foolproof. Or you could try bracketing your shots. Thanks

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:36:21 +0000

Great post! I baffled by this when i tried to experiment w/ HDR. Thanks so much

By: Maninder Singh

Maninder Singh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:20:56 +0000

How is setting the EV different from changing the ISO ?