I usually do a few test shots before the birds show up for breakfast. I get decent looking histograms, but i can see in the lcd monitor the peanuts looking to bright. I usually have to dial in a lot of - EV then every thing looks way to under exposed. I have thought that maybe the concrete slab might be adding qa bit of glare and throwing off the exposure,, but the AM shoots are usually in shade, getting diffused light.
Its perplexing for sure. Dave On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the exposure, perhaps, the result of being taken from a background shadow > or...? To avoid the dreaded "clipping", I often lock in a quick meter reading > taken from something slightly lighter than the main subject. When shooting > wildlife, however, one seldom has the chance to fiddle with various > exposures. It's something that must be anticipated and be a part of the > preset. > I keep a -1/2 preset. I've heard of some doing such to speed up the shutter, > thereby, reducing noise grain. Seems any effect would be largely/wholly > imaginary. > > Jack > > --- On Sun, 8/8/10, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: David J Brooks <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Peso Decisions >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 9:34 AM >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:26 AM, >> Christine Aguila >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > A good moment caught, Dave. The blue jay looks >> great! If you use >> > Lightroom, did you try the recover slider on the nuts? >> Cheers, Christine >> >> Yep. It is now at 100%. and i needed to do a -0.43 exposure >> to loose >> the clipping.Every time i try the birds here, be it peanuts >> or >> saphhire?? seeds, the main body of the photo is fine for >> exposure and >> the seeds/nuts are always burnt out. >> >> LR 2 BTW >> >> Dave >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Brooks" >> <[email protected]> >> > To: "Pentax Discuss" <[email protected]>; >> "Barbara Brooks" <[email protected]>; >> > "Petch Dianne" <[email protected]> >> > Cc: "Home Sarah" <[email protected]>; >> "Conley Leah" >> > <[email protected]>; >> "Smillie Dale" <[email protected]> >> > Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:17 AM >> > Subject: Peso Decisions >> > >> > >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11396892 >> >> >> >> Again problems with the nuts burned out. >> >> >> >> K10D D FA 50-200 >> >> >> >> Comments welcome >> >> ' >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> >> >> -- >> >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the >> link directly above and >> >> follow the directions. >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and >> > follow the directions. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
