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      07-31-2017, 01:55 PM   #10935
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Great photo of a Kingfisher in the dive. I always enjoy seeing these animated and skillful birds at work. Unfortunately we don't have that many of them in this area.
Thanks Terry.

They're cocky little birds, with good reason to be confident with their fishing skills. This one was on a regularly used perch, but, I'd have a hard time finding them if they didn't always announce when they caught something. Whether celebrating, or annoyed, their distinctive ratcheting sound always puts me on alert.
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      07-31-2017, 02:09 PM   #10936
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Shane, I dove deeper into your hummingbird shot's EXIF data. The under-exposure was caused by you being in Automatic mode. The bright background raised the shutter speed way higher than it needed to be.

If you're going to shoot birds-in-flight, you have to break out of the Automatic mode and go to Manual. The shutter speed required to get some color on the hummer is about half where your camera chose. If going to Manual seems too daunting, then you might try Av or Tv mode and then using the EV adjustment to deal with the changing background. For instance, if I was in Av mode for that shot, I would have spun the big wheel on the back of the camera to get to +1EV, realizing that the bright background was going to under-expose the main subject, if I didn't adjust.

I shot in Av mode for several years. Av and Tv are good stepping stones to full Manual. You have to understand how the meter is working, but then you can easily adjust exposure with the +-EV wheel. For birds-in-flight, I ultimately went to full manual because there were too many situations where the bird would start against a dark cloud, go in front of a white could, then blue sky and finally trees. I couldn't spin the EV wheel fast enough and accurately enough to expose the bird correctly. In manual, I expose for the subject and don't worry about BG. Of course, I have to be constantly aware of changing light conditions and manually changing my setting. That's the downside, but, if you shoot enough, you get used to it.
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Shane, I dove deeper into your hummingbird shot's EXIF data. The under-exposure was caused by you being in Automatic mode. The bright background raised the shutter speed way higher than it needed to be.

If you're going to shoot birds-in-flight, you have to break out of the Automatic mode and go to Manual. The shutter speed required to get some color on the hummer is about half where your camera chose. If going to Manual seems too daunting, then you might try Av or Tv mode and then using the EV adjustment to deal with the changing background. For instance, if I was in Av mode for that shot, I would have spun the big wheel on the back of the camera to get to +1EV, realizing that the bright background was going to under-expose the main subject, if I didn't adjust.
I shoot almost always in Av or Tv but rarely flip to full manual. The only times I really go back to A+ is with quick shots that I really don't have time to prepare for in social environments (once or twice that's happened at car meets when I want to capture people instead of cars quickly and then back). Those there were shot in Av but were also all in the shade where I didn't have a method of lighting the hummers otherwise. Given a different time of day they may have come out much better, unfortunately that is at my grandparents house and we didn't stick around long enough for the sun to hit the backside of their home. I hope to move to full manual, it just seems so tricky especially when you're trying to narrow the focus on such a small subject. That's when the finer points have become so challenging. I do really appreciate your criticism here, I believe it's time to start working in full manual outside of still subjects and expand my understanding of the digital camera platform. Unfortunately I'm going to run out of time for already practiced subjects, but I'm sure other opportunities will come around.

In the mean time, here's a shot from a car meet we held in Austin. I think these came out pretty good, but let me know if you find other points of improvement! I'm very open to them, you're not going to hurt my feelings here . Also thanks again dcstep for taking the time to go through those photos, it means a lot to me as I aspire to your photos frequently.


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Here's shot from yesterday.

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      08-02-2017, 08:50 AM   #10941
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I shoot almost always in Av or Tv but rarely flip to full manual. The only times I really go back to A+ is with quick shots that I really don't have time to prepare for in social environments (once or twice that's happened at car meets when I want to capture people instead of cars quickly and then back). Those there were shot in Av but were also all in the shade where I didn't have a method of lighting the hummers otherwise. Given a different time of day they may have come out much better, unfortunately that is at my grandparents house and we didn't stick around long enough for the sun to hit the backside of their home. I hope to move to full manual, it just seems so tricky especially when you're trying to narrow the focus on such a small subject. That's when the finer points have become so challenging. I do really appreciate your criticism here, I believe it's time to start working in full manual outside of still subjects and expand my understanding of the digital camera platform. Unfortunately I'm going to run out of time for already practiced subjects, but I'm sure other opportunities will come around.
Great shot of a beautiful car.

A couple of tricks that I use for getting my manual mode settings right are as follows:
  • ISO 800 is my default. In really bright sun, I go to 400, in overcast I go to 1600 and up from there as I get more and more desperate.
  • Default aperture is f/8
  • Shutter speed is high, because I'm shooting fast birds. 1/3200 for white birds and 1/2500-sec. for brown birds, 1/2000-for blackbirds.
  • HERES THE BIGGY, check your setting by shooting something like tree bark, or grass in the prevalent light. That setting will work for all the dark birds, but you'll need to reduce exposure for white birds.

The objective is a setting for the small, fast bird and the meter can only deal effectively with the general exposure.
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Mountain Goat Portrait by David Stephens, on Flickr

Mountain goat against blue sky.

Shane, click on the image to go to Flickr and see my Manual settings. Just like I said before. The Canon 5D MkIV makes such great files at ISO 800 that I don't worry about going down, even though I could have for this shot. With older sensors, I probably would be thinking more about lowering ISO.
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Compared to the previous vineyard shot, which were Dry Creek Zin grapes, these are Central Valley grapes, from near Stockton, and will more likely end up in a jug or box on the lower shelves.

Jug Wine Ready by lennycarl08, on Flickr
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Compared to the previous vineyard shot, which were Dry Creek Zin grapes, these are Central Valley grapes, from near Stockton, and will more likely end up in a jug or box on the lower shelves.
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Marmot mother and child, at 14,000-feet, on Mount Evans, Colorado:

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Busiest creature in Costa Rica - - - the leaf cutter ant. These little farmers are on the move day and night collecting leaves to feed their crop.
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I was out hunting raptors and didn't get much, but I did see this monstrosity fly out over me

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Yes, they are huge. This is a shot from the last overseas mission I ran in the Air Force, at Tak Li Air Base, Thailand in 2003.

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