LCD Brightness

[dinduboy14]

It was a bright sunny day and decided to take a drive to the Great Ocean Road. Looked like a great day too for photography. :D It was a bit hard though to view the pictures after taking shots as the sun was pretty bright and hence decided to increase my LCD brightness from 0 to +2. This helped me view my pictures better. After viewing few of them, the pictures seem to be over exposed and thus changed my exposure from -0.7 to -1.7. Anyway continues snapping away and the pictures looked good from camera till i got back home and loaded them on my laptop.

Now most of pictures taken are underexposed!! which makes me think changing the LCD display brightness somehow screwed my judgement on exposure setting. Anybody out there with similar experience? Or my I getting something wrong here… :?

[ShaolinTiger]

As said before many times, don't use the look of the picture on the LCD to judge exposure - only composition as the brightness setting will effect the picture.

Use the histogram.

[skywalker]

Yeah... agree with ST... but I would also suggest to change to camera too (just joking)... probably u need to read up on the fundamentals :) More work on the CS I would presume

[kclau]

yeah,
don't judge it by only looking at the picture.
learn how to interprete the histogram.
i made the same mistake for thrusting the camera's LCD too much, the pic often looks fine on the camera LCD but it's actually underexposed.

[dinduboy14]

haha guess i have learnt my lesson.
most important thing though is not to forgot the lesson :D

[Alan_drg]

Lear mine long ago, when some one adjusted my LCD camera brightness, go and shoot event end up all pic under expose kena hemtam left right up down from the event management head... sigh... that the last I will heard from him...

[JackJack]

nv believe wat u see on the LCD preview, it will always look nice, use the histrogram:D

when the histrogram showing a nice graph, the preview always look not nice, but dun mind it, believe the histrogram