3 Photos of the flowers on the Jacaranda in my yard:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Here I'm showing just what using the Exposure Compensation wheel can do:

Photo right out of the camera; no edits at all.

#1


Photo with small amount of exposure compensation done before the photo was taken:

#2


Photo with more exposure compensation done before the photo was taken:

#3


Which one do you like the best?

[niyad]

1. They are all lovely. But I like the last one best. The light makes me happy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thank you, my dear niyad! I like the light in the last one too. It's happier, somehow. ♥

[jfz9580m]

2. Is it just me or does that look like a Rohrshach inkblot?

Very Goldilocks and the 3 bears, but I think I like number 2 best.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I think you're onto something, my dear jfz9580m!

They do rather resemble a Rohrshach inkblot. But what does that say about us???

#2 is pretty, for sure. I had fun playing with the exposure compensation ring on my camera.

[jfz9580m]

5. Heh heh

[usonian]

6. Detectors lie, film lies, eyes lie worst of all.

Long story short, the top one looks almost 2 stops underexposed. My, how could that be?

The bottom one looks most realistic, AND pleasing. (They usually go together)

Do check your settings. I myself sometimes forget to reset (for example, someone said to go +0.7 stops for sunsets. Looks good, but I caught myself not resetting that the next day.) The camera remembered.

That lighting should have "clicked" with any meter/metering unless the bright spots were really really bright. Other pictures look OK?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. It looks underexposed because it was, my dear usonian!

It was the setting left over from the last photo I took before taking this one. I'd forgotten to change it.

It has now been changed, but too late for that photo.



I'm pleased that you like #3. It is pretty.

BTW: I don't really do metering. I take photos on how they look on the little viewing screen on the back of the camera. It works.

[usonian]

15. I did it myself tonight on the Coolpix.

Setting out, I discovered that exposure compensation had been set to -0.7 stops (for the sunrise and planets, posted in elleng's thread) and that the grip covering is loose from many years of service, and that the 4 little screws that hold the tripod socket are all loose. Easy for me.

Today was sunrise with two planets, flowers and sunset. One of those days.
I will review and share some.

And reset my sunset exposure compensation, +0.7 before tomorrow.

[burrowowl]

7. Number 1

[sprinkleeninow]

8. I'll take Door Number 3, please.😄 😘

The colors. And sunlight lattice.

[Escape to Calif. on My Plan B List.]

[sprinkleeninow]

9. I tink dis foxy lady wielding her camera did dis on porpoise.🤭

Attaway❣

Foxy as in "foxy". From back in the day.

C'mon y'all! You knew that connotation, yes?

[niyad]

12. Of course we did!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I did do this on porpoise!

That was the whole idea.

I've been called foxy before, though not in a long time. I like the name.

[SunSeeker]

10. #3. I love Jacaranda season in Southern California.

Whole neighborhoods turn purple!

[brer cat]

11. #3