EOS T6 Trouble with bracketing

[K-Emery]

Hey! I have an EOS Rebel T6 and I'm trying to use exposure bracketing. I've looked through multiple manuals, have watched many instructional videos and asked people who have had more experience with cameras how to and everything I have tried, failed. I always end up with one very underexposed or overexposed, blurry picture and I followed every direction I was given. I would like to know if there's something I'm missing or if my camera could potentially have something wrong with it. 

[stevet1]

K-Emery,

With bracketing, you have to take three successive shots, one at a time, by pressing your shutter button three times. The camera takes one normal exposure, one slightly underexposed, and one slightly overexposed.

If you turn on your burst mode first, your camera will take three quick shots with one press of the shutter  button.

Steve Thomas

[ebiggs1]

" I always end up with one very underexposed or overexposed, blurry picture ..."

The two conditions are not related. The under, correct and over exposure is correct. That's how it is supposed to work. You then merge the three photos into one HDR image. BTW, three shots is not the only number of photos you can make using this method. I have used five and seven at times.

The blurry shots are a different matter. You need to find out what it could be OOF, too slow shutter, missed focus, etc, whatever.

[Waddizzle]

Place the camera on a tripod to keep the images well aligned.  I’m not sure what you mean by “burst” mode.  Continuous Drive Mode, instead of Single Shot?

If you use the shutter delay time, the camera will capture the entire bracketing sequence, even if the drive mode is set to Single Shot.  The camera will fire at its max fps..

[K-Emery]

Ohh, I meant as in terms of white balance by overexposed. I guess I should've said the image turned out way too bright instead, my mistake. I only seem to end up with one picture that is too bright or too dark. Thank you for your feedback, I will be trying this! 

[K-Emery]

That might've been one part where I messed up, I didn't use a tripod or shutter delay time. Thank you for the advice! I'm gonna try this and see how it works! 

[Waddizzle]

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@K-Emery wrote:

Ohh, I meant as in terms of white balance by overexposed. I guess I should've said the image turned out way too bright instead, my mistake. I only seem to end up with one picture that is too bright or too dark. Thank you for your feedback, I will be trying this! 

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In one sense, winding up one shot that is a little too bright and another that is a little too dark is the whole idea behind exposure bracketing.

[K-Emery]

I saw that on a video once, then tried it and it still wasn't working out for me. I tried both setting my camera on continuous shooting and single shot. Thank you for the help!

[Waddizzle]

If you need to capture multiple sequences, then put the lens cap on the lens and take a single “blank” image between sequences!

[EDIT] A baseball cap or towel works, too.

[zakslm]

I'm not sure if this applies to the T6 or even if it answers the question you have on exposure bracketing, but here's what I discovered on my T7:

1) Turn on the camera, make sure the back display in on.

2) Hit the "Q" button (below the Av =/- button to the right of the back screen

3) Use the back pad (round thingy with the up, down, right, left buttons and the set button in the middle) to highlight the exposure compensation scale (goes from -3 to +3) in yellow

4)  Press the center "Set" button

5) A scale from "Darker to "Lighter will appear with 0 in the middle and -3 and +3 on the left and right

6) Use the control wheel (under your right index finger in back of the shutter button) to expand the "bracket" back and forth between 1/3 stop and 2 stops of bracketing.

7)  Press the "Set" button again.  The back of the camera will show the "bracket" you set and the next 3 shots you take will be exposed at 0, the left bracket (minus), then the right bracket (plus).

I always use the menu to "Clear all Camera Settings" after anything like bracketing or if I set the camera differently than any default settings just so I start with "clear" settings before shooting again.

Another way to use exposure bracketing somewhat diffrently is if your starting point is something other than 0 exposure comensation.  If you set Exposure compensation at say -1 1/3rd stops you can still set up bracketing as described above.  So in that case, the first shot would be at -1 1/3rd stops, the second at whatever you set the minus bracket to and the third to the plus bracket.  So if your bracket is 1 1/3rd stops, the first shot would be at -1 1/3rd, the second at -2 2/3rds and the third at 0.  I did this last night when trying to photograph the sunset, starting at -1 exposure compensation and using a 2/3rds bracket.  Below is the minus bracket shot at -1 2/3rds that in my opinion, was the best of the 3 (after cropping and slightly punching up the colors)

Hope that helps.