All DSLRs allow you to make adjustments to the suggested exposure through an exposure compensation feature. Compensation works by changing the suggested exposure to allow more or less light for a specific situation.
As an example, Sometimes the suggested exposure isn't the best choice. In this first image, the highlights are overexposed. However, in the second image, I've reduced the exposure by 2/3 of a stop, giving me more detail by using exposure compensation.
How can you tell when exposure compensation is the right choice? This is where digital rules the roostthe LCD display with histogram gives you immediate feedback on your images. In the first image below, you can see the first histogram from the overexposed example shown above. The detail in the highlights is pushed against the right side of the histogram, indicating overexposure. After the -2/3-stop compensation, the second histogram has moved to the left, giving me more detail in the highlights, which I was trying to capture
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