Quote Originally Posted by payn817
You are just an old fashioned kinda guy!



So, I don't want to jump ahead and overwhelm anyone. However, is there a kind of "standard" of how you change the exposure if your subject moves to shadow?

For example, say light shadows 1/2 stop, med shadow 1 stop, etc?
Or, is that one of those things that come with practice, and time?

I'm excited about this, because A mode made me feel limited, and struggled in many situations. Therefore creating exposure issue, and upon trying to correct them, possibly hurting image quality.
For this the in-camera meter is great. Set it to spot metering. You can adjust the exposure based upon the original meter reading by subtracting or adding exposure value. If you meter to "0" as your default and your subject moves into shadow - your in-camera meter will tell you what the exposure value is. For instance, it might tell you that the wing used to be 0, but now it is -1. You can just subtract one stop from your exposure to correct that to 0.

Shadows vary greatly, so there isn't any good standard to apply here...mostly it's just a comparison issue; know what used to be 0, and you will be able to easily get back to 0 by metering on the same spot.