https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408963#M16916 <P>thanks so much..greatly appreciated</P> Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:49:17 GMT riverposie 2023-03-07T18:49:17Z https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408928#M16911 <P>When taking photos of people in our church, the camera captures the light from the windows and the photo becomes bad. the light in the church is dimly lit..is there a setting that will correct this and give an even photo of the people. i have been using the auto setting.</P> Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:50:21 GMT https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408928#M16911 riverposie 2023-03-07T15:50:21Z https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408936#M16912 <P>Best to post an example, but imagine what is happening is that the camera (since it's in auto mode) is seeing the large amount of light from the outdoors and exposing for that. &nbsp;Which leads to the interior areas being underexposed.</P><P>Look into exposure compensation which would let you adjust up/down to get a proper exposure for the interior of the church.</P><P>You may need to use Av, Tv or P modes to enable exposure compensation.</P><P>See page 52 of the <A href="https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/1/0300031221/01/pssx740hs-cu-en.pdf" target="_self">User Manual</A> for details.</P> Tue, 07 Mar 2023 16:00:11 GMT https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408936#M16912 rs-eos 2023-03-07T16:00:11Z https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408939#M16913 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="20221204112104_IMG_5721~2.jpg" style="width: 1984px;"><img src="https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39995i75F11FB869FC1341/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="20221204112104_IMG_5721~2.jpg" alt="20221204112104_IMG_5721~2.jpg" /></span></P><P> </P> Tue, 07 Mar 2023 16:20:04 GMT https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408939#M16913 riverposie 2023-03-07T16:20:04Z https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408957#M16914 <P>Ah, the exposure is pretty good, but I see now what you're dealing with.</P><P>In these situations, it would be best to move around the subjects such that you remove the strong backlighting. &nbsp; e.g. in this particular image, could the subjects have stepped a bit to camera left (their right). &nbsp;And then you would position yourself more to the right. &nbsp;i.e. the background now is the area where the coats are hanging.</P> Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:51:07 GMT https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408957#M16914 rs-eos 2023-03-07T17:51:07Z https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408963#M16916 <P>thanks so much..greatly appreciated</P> Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:49:17 GMT https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Point-Shoot-Digital-Cameras/PowerShot-SX740-HS-How-to-Get-Good-Photos-in-Dim-Light/m-p/408963#M16916 riverposie 2023-03-07T18:49:17Z