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Working with the Auto Lighting Optimizer - 5D Tutorial
From the course: Canon 5D Mark III Essential Training
Working with the Auto Lighting Optimizer
Your eye has an incredible ability to see in low light. This means that you can very often see details and shadow areas with your naked eye, while your camera will render those areas as black, and featureless. The auto lighting optimizer applies post-processing to your image in camera to brighten shadow areas in your image. Note that it doesn't just brighten the blacks in your image; it actually figures out where the shadowy areas are in your scene, and it brightens those, without washing out all of the blacks in your picture. The auto lighting optimizer controls are located in the second page of the shooting menu. They are right here; Auto Lighting Optimizer. I can see that I'm currently set to a middle setting; what Canon calls Standard. I've basically just got three settings: Low, Standard, and High, and Off. I can also tell it to Disable the Auto Lighting Optimizer during manual exposure. By default, Auto Lighting Optimizer is turned on for program, shutter priority, and aperture…
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Exploring metering modes3m 26s
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Using exposure lock1m 22s
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Working with focus points and metering3m 47s
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Exploring Aperture Priority mode3m
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Using the depth of field preview button2m 40s
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Using Shutter Priority mode3m 26s
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Using Manual mode3m 27s
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Using auto exposure bracketing6m 3s
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Exploring Bulb mode2m 34s
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Working with the Auto Lighting Optimizer1m 40s
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Correcting lens aberration2m 46s
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Exploring Highlight Tone Priority2m 25s
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Understanding high-dynamic range (HDR)7m 5s
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Creating multiple exposures6m 25s
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Using the mirror lockup feature2m 20s
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