Trying to take picture on a Partly Cloudy Day...

[Photographiend]

Am I the only one who starts to feel a little...




???

I feel like I spent the whole day tinkering with the software! Then every time I get the settings figured out the light changes...:banghead: again....

Anyone else experience this?

 

[Sw1tchFX]

:neutral:

 

[TATTRAT]

Software? What software are you talking about?

Adjusting to light changing is kinda a constant with photography. . . I thought. If it's cloudy, you adjust. If it's sunny, you adjust...so on and so forth. If you spend all day tinkering with something, and then the light changes, you should know just what to do being that you spent all day tinkering with it, I would think.

Am I missing something?

 

[Light Guru]

I feel like I spent the whole day tinkering with the software!

By this do you mean you are taking your computer out shooting with you?

Then every time I get the settings figured out the light changes..again....

That can happen no matter when you shoot. Learn to deal with it, it will make you a better photographer.

Partly cloudy days are often the BEST days to photograph!

 

[Photographiend]

I guess I don't get shooting on a partly cloudy day. Having the sun behind a soft cloud, then a heavy cloud, then no cloud at all...

It makes me nutty, plus my camera gets a little slow when you have to adjust it constantly. The last camera I used that allowed me to adjust these settings was all done with knobs and dials so much simpler than: open this program, go to this feature, adjust this setting, then that, then the other... Somewhere along the line I ended up turning on the 10 second timer... which as it turns out you can't back out of once you hit the shutter... *facepalm* It feels like I am trying to communicate with a chimpanzee... or maybe I am the chimpanzee... I dunno.

At any rate. Ranting usually seems to help.

:love: Lolly pop anyone?

 

[sm4him]

I don't know what the software part part means, but I can sympathize with what I think you're saying about the weather. It was a bigger problem with my D5100 because I had to do more menu diving to change some things.

I think what the OP is referring to is those days when the conditions are changing rapidly. I've been out shooting on days where it's brilliantly sunny, you see your shot, get your settings right and then just as you're about to actuate the shutter, the sun goes behind a cloud and your shot ends up underexposed. Happens a lot around here--the best thing you can do is be aware of the cloud cover and plan your shot accordingly, but even then, sometimes you just pay your money and take your chances--this is especially true when I'm out photographing birds. If I saw a hawk fly right overhead, I gotta just shoot with my existing settings. If the cloud cover suddenly changes as I'm shooting, I can maybe quickly adjust shutter speed or aperture to compensate, but if I take the extra second to change my ISO...birdie gone.

I have a similar problem, again mostly with bird photography. I'm shooting in the sky and then the bird swoops down into the tree line (or I see a more interesting bird in a tree, or on the ground), and all of a sudden my settings are going to create underexposed shots.

Practice--figure out what you CAN change pretty rapidly, and do what you can with what you have.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Clouds are 'yer friend anyway