Friday, 24 August 2018

portrait - Can the camera select wrong exposure just because of color?


I took two pictures of two different flowers with portrait setting. One came perfectly exposed with dark background, the other seems over exposed with brighter background. I tried it again and the same result! Does the color of the object make the camera select wrong exposure? If yes, what is correct technical term for it. How can I fix such photos. Apparently problem is with non white colors only.


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Portrait setting Nikon D5100 (the background is nice dark. In reality it was not dark at all)


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Portrait setting Nikon D5100 (background is bright, more correct to what really it was but the flower seems to be over exposed. The focus was on flower)




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