How Do I Stop Light Autoexposures?
The job of autoexposure is to regulate the amount of light entering the camera – too much and the picture will be too bright, and light areas will burn out to white.
Too little and the picture will be too dark, and the dark areas will hardly rise above black. In daylight, autoexposure should work okay, but shooting outdoors at dusk, it has a tendency to misread the conditions and make the picture lighter than it should be. In this case, you need to use autoexposure compensation.
Setting it to minus one should restore the scene to how it should look. The digital camera’s LCD screen enables you to view the picture immediately – I often hold it up next to the scene and compare the levels of light on screen and in reality. When they more or less match, you know you’ve found the right level.
