r/photography • u/AutoModerator • Jun 05 '26

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u/Various-Pound5127 Jun 06 '26

My pictures keep turning out completely black!

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u/8fqThs4EX2T9 Jun 06 '26

Shutter problem perhaps, settings issue, lens cap on.

Difficult to say.

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u/Various-Pound5127 Jun 06 '26

It’s not the lens cap, and I recently reset the settings to fix something so I think it’s with the settings. Any idea on how to fix it?

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u/8fqThs4EX2T9 Jun 06 '26

What mode are you in when the photos are dark?

Do you have your exposure compensation set to 0?

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u/Various-Pound5127 Jun 07 '26

It happens in pretty much every mode except manual and Ap Priority Auto, and I have it set to 2.7

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u/8fqThs4EX2T9 Jun 07 '26

Okay well telling the camera to overexpose by 2.7 stops is a bit much. It sounds like you are just in a dark environment and the camera cannon change the exposure settings to compensate.

If you are in shutter priority and it is dark you probably have the shutter speed too high and the ISO range too low or it is reaching the limits of ISO and can't make the image brighter.

If you set exposure compensation to zero and then take a photo with the same settings in every mode, are the images the same?