On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:26 PM, Paul Jones [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I took some shots last weekend of a couple of birds in a tree, I just let
> the camera meter normally and the photos came with birds to dark and sky
> normal.
>
> I feel in this situation some fill flash would have worked, but if i had of
> used the flash i only would have got one shot before the birds flew off.
>
> If i has have bracketed the shot is it possible that i would have found a
> happy medium between the exposure of the sky and the birds?
>
> Gotta love these sunny aussie summers :)
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Jones
Hi Paul:
Probably the light coming from the sky behind the birds was so bright that
normal bracketing would not help. The only non-flash solution is to spot-meter
for the birds themselves, letting the sky wash out. Alternatively, if you had
the opportunity to put some foliage behind the birds by changing viewpoint,
that too would help.
I recently used flash on some honey-eaters that were bold enough to be feeding
about eight feet from where I was having breakfast, and they were totally
unfazed by it! Mind you, they are very used to people, and appeared very
relaxed that we should be invading their space....
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
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