Exposure compensation

Exposure compensation is like making a picture brighter or darker if it's too bright or too dark. It's just like how you would adjust the brightness of your TV or computer screen.

Imagine you're taking a picture of your friend outside on a sunny day. Sometimes the sunlight can be very strong and bright, making your friend's face look too bright and washed out in the picture. So you can use exposure compensation to make the picture a little darker, which will help make your friend's face look more normal and not too bright.

Or if you're taking a picture of something indoors and it's too dark because the lighting is not so good, you can use exposure compensation to make the picture brighter, so you can see things better.

Exposure compensation is usually found on your camera as a plus (+) and minus (-) symbol. If you want to make the picture brighter, you would adjust the exposure compensation by moving the plus sign up. If you want to make the picture darker, you would adjust the exposure compensation by moving the minus sign down.

By adjusting the exposure compensation, you can make sure your pictures look the way you want them to, even in tricky lighting situations.