While looking for Red Tailed Hawks, I came across the old Turkey Vultures, let me know what you think 
calicokat Cream of the Crop  14,720 posts Likes: 2 Joined Oct 2005 Location: Southern California More info | Sep 14, 2006 03:38 | #1 While looking for Red Tailed Hawks, I came across the old Turkey Vultures, let me know what you think "You are going to fall off a cliff trying to get a better shot someday"- My hopeful and loving wife
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PaulA Cream of the Crop  More info | Sep 14, 2006 08:32 | #2 First off this is a tough bird with the contrasting black and white, the first looks real good, love the exposure, well done. The second looks dark on my monitor, may be a bit underexposed. GearList
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calicokat THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 14,720 posts Likes: 2 Joined Oct 2005 Location: Southern California More info | Paul A wrote: First off this is a tough bird with the contrasting black and white, the first looks real good, love the exposure, well done. The second looks dark on my monitor, may be a bit underexposed. Thank you for the comments, much appreciated. Another problem I find is how high they soar, its hard to get a decent shot, even with the 400 "You are going to fall off a cliff trying to get a better shot someday"- My hopeful and loving wife
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cfcRebel Cream of the Crop  10,252 posts Joined Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX More info | Sep 14, 2006 10:25 | #4 What Paul has mentioned. Also, if your EC for these shots was 0 or lower, try set it to +0.33 or +0.67 when shooting them against the sky. That way, the underwing is not too dark. Of course, the perfect moment is when they bird turns and the light hits the belly. Fee
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calicokat THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 14,720 posts Likes: 2 Joined Oct 2005 Location: Southern California More info | cfcRebel wrote: What Paul has mentioned. Also, if your EC for these shots was 0 or lower, try set it to +0.33 or +0.67 when shooting them against the sky. That way, the underwing is not too dark. Of course, the perfect moment is when they bird turns and the light hits the belly. Thank you for the tips, I will set the EC to +0.67 "You are going to fall off a cliff trying to get a better shot someday"- My hopeful and loving wife
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lensview Senior Member  524 posts Joined Sep 2006 Location: NY More info | Sep 14, 2006 14:04 | #6  Permanent banThese are probably crops....anyways, rather than dialing EC blindly, use the metering modes of your camera....either partial or spot metering could have exposed the bird right.....depends on the bird size in your viewfinder. The key is to "meter". Canon SD600
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calicokat THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 14,720 posts Likes: 2 Joined Oct 2005 Location: Southern California More info | lensview wrote: These are probably crops....anyways, rather than dialing EC blindly, use the metering modes of your camera....either partial or spot metering could have exposed the bird right.....depends on the bird size in your viewfinder. The key is to "meter". EC can obviously work as well, but it takes a fair amount of bird shooting experience to dial in the right amount. However, you seem to be on the roll now....as long as you accept that the 300 f/2.8 is no magic wand. I used spot metering here, and yes, these are crops. The 400 F/5.6L is still not long enough "You are going to fall off a cliff trying to get a better shot someday"- My hopeful and loving wife
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lensview Senior Member 524 posts Joined Sep 2006 Location: NY More info | Permanent ban calicokat wrote: I used spot metering here, and yes, these are crops. The 400 F/5.6L is still not long enough  OK, I think you got the focus right, as well as the sharpness is there, so you had the shutter speed, thus you are making the 400 do its job. What might have happened is that if the bird was really high up, your spot metering was not spot on.......if it was, you would have blown the sky totally, given the mostly black underside of the bird. Canon SD600
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calicokat THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 14,720 posts Likes: 2 Joined Oct 2005 Location: Southern California More info | lensview wrote: OK, I think you got the focus right, as well as the sharpness is there, so you had the shutter speed, thus you are making the 400 do its job. What might have happened is that if the bird was really high up, your spot metering was not spot on.......if it was, you would have blown the sky totally, given the mostly black underside of the bird. Again, one can only guess, however, I think these post mortems are useful as an input to our next shooting session. Do you recommend another metering mode when shooting into the open blue of the sky "You are going to fall off a cliff trying to get a better shot someday"- My hopeful and loving wife
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