What are you looking at?

[Peggyjom]

Looking for advice on the exposure of this photo. I have a terrible habbit of over exposing.
I am begining to wonder if it is the LCD protector I have on the back of my camera. It is glass but I have read were they can effect the display.
Also the Depth. I perfer the back ground a little out of focus but with this new lens if I shoot at 5.6 or 7 I get a lot of out of focus wings or bodies.
I had heart failure when I saw the small dots off to the side of the bird, in the raw version they look to be small bugs maybe nats or something. I thought it was dirt!

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Camera Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture f/10.0
Focal Length 400 mm
ISO Speed 400
Lens EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM +2.0x
Exposure Program Aperture-priority AE

[karen_s]

Exposure looks ok to me. If anything, it looks just a tiny bit dark, but that could be my monitor. You have some nice highlights on the gooses head and that is a very good thing.

As far as checking exposure on your lcd, there are two ways I know of that will give you a more accurate reading than just looking at the picture on the LCD ...

1. Use the histogram view on you camera. See page 110 of your user manual on how to view it. If you are not familiar with what a histogram is, this link might get you started.

Understanding Histograms

2. Turn on the blinkies, page 173. The proper term in the manual is "Highlight Alert." If you enable this feature, overexposed areas of the image will blink on the LCD. I use this ALL THE TIME! It's a bit annoying when reviewing images but an invaluable tool to getting good exposures.

Here's the online manual in PDF just in case your hard copy manual isn't handy ...

http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/9/030000...550d-im-en.pdf

[Peggyjom]

Thank you, Thank you for the insight. I am off to read the manual AGAIN now. I actually just about slept with the darn thing in the begining then I guess I got lazy. i am going to go back and revisit it again. Now that I have a little better knowledge of what other functions do I can pick up some new tricks!
Day 32 straight of rain, i might as well read about taking photo's

[karen_s]

Don't sweat it. I find camera manuals a bit tough to understand myself. When I got my first DSLR, I bought a book kinda like this one ...

David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D: Guide to Digital SLR Photography [Book]

It was very useful in explaining what some of the features were and why I would want to use them.

Enjoy the rain and the read!