Summer Dailies 2006
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It's a challenge for me and an opportunity to learn from others. If you want to see some truly amazing photography (not mine), check out the other photographers' galleries at the link above. You can also check out their comments and suggestions for my images by clicking on the photo and looking below it for "comments." Feel free to leave your own too.
Never trust your camera
(Sept. 14) This was a bit of an exercise. I tried this on several settings, from aperture to time value priority and some automatic ones. All seemed way off to me, both in the playback and in the shutterspeeds or fstops. I think the meter only saw the grey sky and this dot of a hawk in it (this is a huuuuuuge crop). So I set it to what seemed a better mix, i.e., as high a shutterspeed that I thought would support the lowest f-stop, and it was the only shot that wasn't white sky with a black hawk. Don't laugh -- my lens won't go lower than f-5.6 when fully extended. It's not very fancy, but it takes a beating and keeps on ticking.
sherstone.com
on September 15, 2006A longer lens may not have helped you with the exposure in this case. It looks to me that the hawk was only a very small part of the frame and unless you have spot metering which you don't on that body then your just going to have to do what you did and that is bracket your shots and yes what Thusie said. He is a nice hawk too.
Andrea Kaus (ChaosGraphics)
on September 15, 2006Thanks, great advice -- I had the EC up to almost 1 already. This shot was the manual only and the only one that turned out "legible." It was just interesting to me to try to outsmart the meter. I also longed for a longer lens, but that would just be too easy, now wouldn't it?
Thusie
on September 15, 2006Oh those backlit hawks!!! Rough shot, very. One thing to always consider when trying for one of these, and sometimes nothing works real well, would be your up exposure comp to +1.2-2 yep that much. I sure had my share of shots like this:-) I also, and I can't remember what metering modes the Dreb has, but I'll switch from evaluative (sp) to partial. Just some thoughts.