PHRubin wrote:
I had taken a few shots of my dog. She is a dark red/brown and was on a white floor. The shots were coming out too dark, so I pushed the EC up to +3. That worked fine.
The next time I used that camera I was taking shots of leaves on my lawn and couldn't understand why only auto gave the right exposure, any other mode was horribly overexposed... UNTIL, finally, the epiphany! DUHH - I still had the +3 EC set!
And it shows up in the viewfinder. In my case I had used the camera the night before to long exposure of a bridge and went manual on the lens. If wasn't until I downloaded some photos into LR and they all looked just a bit blurry. Red face and threw away the pics. Haven't done it since. In fact I often check my settings before I leave the house to avoid my blunders. :)