shooting birds
Jan 10, 2013 18:34:37 #
washy
Loc: Dorset UK
Any of you hogs know the best setting for shooting a bird or just one subject in the frame? Canon user here. Is it spot metering, evauluative or?
Jan 10, 2013 18:53:51 #
Jan 10, 2013 20:02:05 #
Jan 10, 2013 20:20:49 #
washy wrote:
Any of you hogs know the best setting for shooting a bird or just one subject in the frame? Canon user here. Is it spot metering, evauluative or?
If its difficult lighting and all you care to get lighted is the subject, spot is good, otherwise, depends.
Jan 10, 2013 22:30:26 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Birds-In-Flight / Birds-On-Water Forum
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-88809-1.html
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-88809-1.html
Nikonian can you re-post link it comes right back here. I do that sometimes too sometimes. When i have couple windows open. many win
Jan 10, 2013 22:33:31 #
dirtpusher wrote:
OOPS!Nikonian can you re-post link it comes right back here. I do that sometimes too sometimes. When i have couple windows open. many win
Birds-In-Flight / Birds-On-Water Forum
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-112-1.html
Corrected and checked.
Jan 10, 2013 22:41:10 #
Jan 11, 2013 14:14:58 #
washy wrote:
Any of you hogs know the best setting for shooting a bird or just one subject in the frame? Canon user here. Is it spot metering, evauluative or?
One good way of shooting birds, whether in flight or posing, is spot metering. If it is flying, set the camera on burst. If the bird is in flight, there will be some movement you impute to the camera, therefore some shots will miss. Just keep the ones that hit. Similarly, a stationary bird is often partly ensconced by plants. The spot focus will give you a sharp picture of the bird and a pleasingly blurred treatment of the plants on all the shots you "hit." You can toss the others. If you use multi-point general focus, the pleasing blurring and bokeh of secondary parts of the image will be far more difficult to attain.
Jan 11, 2013 15:23:20 #
washy wrote:
Any of you hogs know the best setting for shooting a bird or just one subject in the frame? Canon user here. Is it spot metering, evauluative or?
For all my bird shots I use AI Servo, Spot metering
Jan 11, 2013 15:51:08 #
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