Bracketing shots

[Mark L]

I understand that in order to take bracketed shorts, you keep generally keep the aperture constant and change the shutter speed by a stop, or however many depending of your desire, and keep on taking a shot with the altered shutter difference.

I think you understand.

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My question is how to you expose for the brightest and darkest areas of the frame?

Choose an exposure mid way between the brightest and darkest areas and take your bracketed photos. You may need to go to more than one stop if there is a wide light variation.

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In the example above what would you do?

It depends. Do you want the shrub thing and it's reflection showing detail or silhouetted?
And if you bracket using RAW it gives you even more to work with than just one RAW photo adjusted and blended.
Just a few thoughts from someone that's not an expert with this.