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Tree in the park<\/a><\/p>\n

Call me retarded, but only today I found out how to do exposure compensation with my camera. Basically, set it in either Av or Tv mode, take a measurement, than switch to manual (M), use the exposure measurement acquired and modify it slightly. There’s a small indicator on the exposure scale which shows how much is compensated.<\/p>\n

Album location: \/photos\/2005\/2005-06-20_POTD<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Call me retarded, but only today I found out how to do exposure compensation with my camera. Basically, set it in either Av or Tv mode, take a measurement, than switch to manual (M), use the exposure measurement acquired and modify it slightly. There’s a small indicator on the exposure scale which shows how much … Continue reading Tree in the park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[48],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-potd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9102,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/17\/sprinkler\/","url_meta":{"origin":9121,"position":0},"title":"Sprinkler","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 17, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"While Maxim was sleeping I was entertaining myself with the sprinkler photography. 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