This past summer I was playing with the macro setting on New Camera, trying to get a good shot of the blooms on our rosebush. For reasons I'm still not sure of, I couldn't get the exposure settings to sync-up, resulting in shots like the one above.In the words of the immortal Bob Ross: "We don't make mistakes, we have happy accidents."
I'm using this for this week's Photo Hunt .
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The overexposure does give it an otherworldly quality, Steve.
Since the camera overexposed it, that usually means its sensor was reading the scene as dark. Maybe it was taking a reading from one of the shadowy parts of the rose, or it just read the rose as "dark," or there was a shadow falling across the scene that fooled the camera's light meter into reading it as dark, and it therefore bumped up the exposure to try to compensate. It's like the opposite of what happens when you try to shoot a picture in the snow; the camera reads the scene as bright and winds up underexposing things, like people's faces in the foreground which come out dark and shadowy.
I run into these situations a lot, and sometimes, if i really want to get the shot, will "bracket" the exposure by first shooting at the recommended exposure, and then bumping it up a stop from that and shooting it, and then bumping it down a stop from the recommended exposure and taking a shot there. Usually, one of the three pictures will come out properly exposed.
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