Auto exposure bracketing

Even once you understand the manual control that you have over exposure, there…will, of course, be times when you are just not sure what the right exposure is;…sometimes your camera gets confused, also.…I've got this scene here, which is a little bit tricky.…I've got the stump in the foreground, which I like because it gives me a good…strong subject in my image, and I've got this nice background.…I have got a mountainside in the background and these trees and these leaves.…I want to take a shot that that encompasses all of these.…So I am in aperture priority mode, at f 11 to be sure that I have got a nice,…deep depth of field, but watch what happens when I take my shot.…

Overall, the exposure is good, but look at the stump here. It's pretty dark.…I have lost a lot of detail in the front of the stump.…It would be very nice to have more detail their, which means I need to brighten…up the image, which means I am going to do an overexposure.…Now, this part you should understand already.…I am going to dial in a one-stop over exposure, and take another shot, and this…