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The biggest advantage digital has over fi lm is the
fact that you can check your shot once you’ve
taken it. You can bring up a histogram to check the
brightness range of a scene – and make sure you’re not
underexposing or overexposing it.
You can, if your
camera allows, switch on a fl ashing highlight to show
you any blown highlights where detail will be lost in
your photograph. You can then change your exposure
accordingly. And if all that fails to produce the balanced
exposure you want, you can go some way to rectifying
it while image-editing.
It is, however good to get things right fi rst time – to
produce a high-quality image in-camera which you
only have to do minimal tweaking with later. This book
arms you with practical advice for getting the
exposures you want, and the confi dence to take
control when the camera’s being fooled. We’ve got
clear examples of when this can happen and what you
should do. We also show you the inspiring work of
three master photographers to give you an idea of you
what can be achieved once you’ve nailed the basics –
which start on page 10…