Re: Bracketing for Patrick! ( digest 1598)

[P3D Bob Howard <bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE: Patrick being Belgian has the right idea that "brackets" in English
mean the other kind of parentheses that are square instead of curved, as
opposed to the curley brackets which are another kind. He wonders what
all this has to do with exposure?

If you concede that brackets are marks placed on either side of a
phrase, you will get a clue to the photo meaning.."on either side".
So bracketed exposures are exposures plus or minus the normal exposure
given in addtion to the normal exposure to get a selection of framss
from under, normal, to over, in some steps of half stops or full stops
just to be sure a winner is gotten. Some slides may look better if not
the normal exposure. (This is the only reason for bracketing on the
Sunny-16 rule? :-) ) BobH


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