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    Mar 22, 2017 5 minutes

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    ANDREW JAMES

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    Control backlit scenes with exposure compensation.

    Backlit issues

    Q I was out with my camera and spotted some beautiful backlit plants, but found the exposures tricky. What was I doing wrong?

    Grant Small

    that means the exposure is going to be harder than normal to figure out. If you leave the camera to work it out for itself, the chances are your images will be wrongly exposed. Depending on how strong the light is, its angle and your position, this can either be under- or overexposed. A bit of either is ?ne for creative reasons, but you want to control the ?nal look of the backlit scene by

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