longroad
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Hi all, my first post here.
I've had my D80 for about 2 years now and have taken some good shots over that time but I just cant crack this one.
Every time i go to my local lake to photograph birds my whites are completely blown out.
I am using a 70-300mm Nikkor lens (f4.5-5.6) and most of the time I'm at 300mm as i cant get close enough.
Here are some example shots i took today. These are really bad shots, I was at 300mm, no tripod and the whites are gone as you can see. this happened in ALL my photos today regardless of what aperture i changed to or ISO.
It is a cloudy day, some sun poking through at times. The sun was to my left and its winter here so the sun isn't that high in the sky. Whites were blown in all photos regardless of whether sun was out or behind clouds.
Any tips that you can provide so i can avoid this happening again would be excellent. I realise that my lens has limitations and obviously getting a better lens would help, but surely it has the capability to get better photos than this.
I've got exposure set at +0.3 and have had that for a long time now, never really had major problems with blowouts. Maybe i should take that back to 0.
All photos are using aperture priority.
f7/1
1/500
ISO 125 (auto)
Spot metering
300mm
f7/1
1/500
ISO 160 (auto)
300mm
Spot metering
f/11
1/400
300mm
ISO 500
f5.6
1/500
ISO 100
300mm
I've had my D80 for about 2 years now and have taken some good shots over that time but I just cant crack this one.
Every time i go to my local lake to photograph birds my whites are completely blown out.
I am using a 70-300mm Nikkor lens (f4.5-5.6) and most of the time I'm at 300mm as i cant get close enough.
Here are some example shots i took today. These are really bad shots, I was at 300mm, no tripod and the whites are gone as you can see. this happened in ALL my photos today regardless of what aperture i changed to or ISO.
It is a cloudy day, some sun poking through at times. The sun was to my left and its winter here so the sun isn't that high in the sky. Whites were blown in all photos regardless of whether sun was out or behind clouds.
Any tips that you can provide so i can avoid this happening again would be excellent. I realise that my lens has limitations and obviously getting a better lens would help, but surely it has the capability to get better photos than this.
I've got exposure set at +0.3 and have had that for a long time now, never really had major problems with blowouts. Maybe i should take that back to 0.
All photos are using aperture priority.
f7/1
1/500
ISO 125 (auto)
Spot metering
300mm
f7/1
1/500
ISO 160 (auto)
300mm
Spot metering
f/11
1/400
300mm
ISO 500
f5.6
1/500
ISO 100
300mm
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