Bracketing your shots is a practice that grew out of necessity. Simply put, you attempt to take multiple exposures of the same setup or shot, with each exposure varying slightly from the others. In the days before you had a digital preview screen on the back of your camera, you had to shoot enough exposures to give yourself a good chance of ending up with a portfolio-worthy shot. Much of my early photo-call practices revolved around two unavoidable facts. First, film came in rolls of a defined length, usually 24 or 36 exposures. Second, it ...

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