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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Weird overexposure from my Nikon D300. Any ideas? | |
unangelino wrote:
Look, I know I'm no good at this but I still can't figure out what caused my Nikon D300 to suddenly start overexposing the other day.
I was getting set up when I shot this image to get a sense of things. You can see from the EXIF that exposure compensation was set to -.5 and I was trying to use the flash to illuminate beneath the subject's hat.
Anyway, so this image is wildly overexposed, wouldn't you say?
Now, what's doubly weird is this; later on I noticed that the D300's meter would occasionally show that an image was going to be pegged, totally overexposed, even though I was then at zero in an attempt to get a handle on things. In these instances, the flash was turned off. When I hit the +/- button it would show 0.
Later, I reset the D300's shooting menu but it still did it's overexposure act a few more times just to piss me off.
I am hoping for my typical "operator error" but currently I'm at a loss.
Any ideas? Thanks for reading...
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What aperture did you have it set to? That looks to me like a photo where I've set things to a point where it would be impossible for the camera to not overexpose it (if you're at f/1.4 on a bright sunny day, and have a fill flash, for example, your camera's fastest shutter speed might not be fast enough (well, fine, absolutely won't be), even at base ISO, to get the proper exposure.
Happens to me my first shot sometimes after I've been shooting something in manual mode auto-ISO, and I suddenly change subjects. I don't know if that camera has the little exposure indicator in the viewfinder, but if it does, and it reads overexposed, make sure your base ISO is set correctly, and adjust aperture until it indicates proper exposure.
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