Bracket shots (Page 3): Again, it sounds like you are merging multiple images or using HDR.

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

duane klipping wrote:

I bracket all the time and know what I am doing. I want the full dynamic range which you will never get with a single shot. If all I wanted was a single shot I would use auto mode to make the settings for me.

Again, it sounds like you are merging multiple images or using HDR.

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

You stated you thought bracketing was just a crutch. I must assume your level of expertise is such you don't need that particular camera tool. Therefore I can only aspire to reach your level of confidence and capabilities. Until that time I, and so many of us, will continue to use all the tools available to us to produce the final product. Photography is not about becoming a pro such as you, rather it is a means to an end using all our tools.

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

papakatz45 wrote:

You stated you thought bracketing was just a crutch. I must assume your level of expertise is such you don't need that particular camera tool. Therefore I can only aspire to reach your level of confidence and capabilities. Until that time I, and so many of us, will continue to use all the tools available to us to produce the final product. Photography is not about becoming a pro such as you, rather it is a means to an end using all our tools.

Right you are. As indicated in many of the responses, bracketing or multiple exposures is necessary if you are stacking exposures
or using HDR PP. For those who don't use those techniques, you can get a proper single exposure without bracketing. I used the term crutch in that anyone
should be able to understand exposure and lighting with enough experience. And to ignore learning how to get a good exposure
and simply relying on bracketing in the hopes one of the exposures is OK then bracketing is a crutch and you may as well just use the point and shoot mode.

Haydon

ricardo7 wrote:

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If people choose to bracket to experiment in exposure I see no harm. All of us have to start somewhere. When I first began shooting I shot in program mode and progressed. You seem adamant that we should follow a certain plan and cannot step off of it. Please share your link to your professional images. I'm sure all of us would love to see what you have become other than insistent.

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

ricardo7 wrote:

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As I said, we are not all the expert you seem to be so using all the tools available to achieve the final product is not using a crutch as your condensing reply keeps stating.

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

...I don't know what the big deal is. There are conditions where it is impossible for *any* camera, regardless to whom it is hooked, to get a "correct" exposure. Several have been mentioned here. I'll bracket once-in-awhile to get those potential blowouts and/or shadow detail while preserving the subject matter. Most of the time, in *my* passion (sports...fast), bracketing is out of the question due to extreme subject movement and it can be quite a scramble to get useable shots, another skill set entirely...but the tool/technique is there, and I use it!

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

chasgroh wrote:

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Amen, use the tools that are needed to get the job done.

Mary Kate Loc: NYC

I started this with a simple question about how to use the bracket function on My camera. That question was answered the first day. This has somehow evolved into a pi$$ing contest. To those few who understood my question and replied ....Thank you.