dannylightning
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i think this is a beginner type question so i am gonna post this here..
i have not done much wild life shooting on cloudy days till recently.. when shooting stuff up in trees or up in the sky i constantly seem to get a under exposed subject, or some times over exposed.
i set my camera up like this.. 1/1000, F/8, auto ISO that is for flying birds and gives me sharp images on my lens, i use auto ISO because panning the camera to the left or right wen a bird is flying could really change the exposure so auto ISO keep the exposure consistent. the way my camera is set up if i need to adjust the exposure i need to adjust the exposure compensation.
on a nice well lit day exposure comp works well for me. but i dont really get exactly how to use it it on a cloudy day shooting things with the white sky in the background., i usually get underexposed photos of the subject with a super bright blow out white sky, some time the whole photo seems over exposed when i crank up the exposure comp to a + setting. so this is where it confuses me.
my camera is usually on matirx metering, maybe switching to spot metering would be better for this type of shooting on a cloudy day, i just now though of that so my main questions are.
1. what metering mode on my Nikon is going to be best for shooting birds on cloudy days.
2. what to do with exposure compensation for things flying against the bright white cloudy sky or in a tree against the white cloudy sky,
usually when i see a bird i need to get a quick photo before it flys away so its not like i really have much time to shoot, see how the photo turned out, change the exposure comp and try again because by that time its usually gone.
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i have not done much wild life shooting on cloudy days till recently.. when shooting stuff up in trees or up in the sky i constantly seem to get a under exposed subject, or some times over exposed.
i set my camera up like this.. 1/1000, F/8, auto ISO that is for flying birds and gives me sharp images on my lens, i use auto ISO because panning the camera to the left or right wen a bird is flying could really change the exposure so auto ISO keep the exposure consistent. the way my camera is set up if i need to adjust the exposure i need to adjust the exposure compensation.
on a nice well lit day exposure comp works well for me. but i dont really get exactly how to use it it on a cloudy day shooting things with the white sky in the background., i usually get underexposed photos of the subject with a super bright blow out white sky, some time the whole photo seems over exposed when i crank up the exposure comp to a + setting. so this is where it confuses me.
my camera is usually on matirx metering, maybe switching to spot metering would be better for this type of shooting on a cloudy day, i just now though of that so my main questions are.
1. what metering mode on my Nikon is going to be best for shooting birds on cloudy days.
2. what to do with exposure compensation for things flying against the bright white cloudy sky or in a tree against the white cloudy sky,
usually when i see a bird i need to get a quick photo before it flys away so its not like i really have much time to shoot, see how the photo turned out, change the exposure comp and try again because by that time its usually gone.
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