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Making exposure easy

Making exposure easy

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Making exposure easy

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- Our flyer has that cool theater seating element in it that really serves to tie together a couple of different places and again this is one of the great things about working with stock photos. You can stumble into something like that and go that's a killer design feature. I want that for real. So we've got red theater seating here just like our stock image had. So my idea has been to try to recreate that because why pay for a stock image if I can shoot it myself. I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to shoot it myself, but I'm gonna give it a try and I also wanna talk about this particular situation because it highlights the one manual exposure control that you may need to take a hold of. Now I had suggested earlier that you stay in Program Mode because the camera will make all the necessary decisions for you and that it'll get it right probably 85% of the time. Well we're into that other 15% right now and I'm gonna take a shot and let you see what I mean. I'm not worried too much yet…

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