Took this shot today, happy with the sharpness, but not happy with the composition or background crap, or the fact that it's very noisy - my fault. Damn well shot was 2 stops underexposed, basically due to my lack of experience and knowledge shooting birds. EXIF is:
Tv(Shutter Speed)
1/1600Sec.
Av(Aperture Value)
F5.6
Metering Modes
Centerweighted average metering
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
400
1/1600Sec.
Av(Aperture Value)
F5.6
Metering Modes
Centerweighted average metering
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
400
Taking into account that the sun was from behind this bird, and I was shooting towards, into the vicinity of the sun, and this is a white feathered bird, what did I do wrong? Obviously the shot would have been a lot cleaner if I'd nailed the exposure correctly. Any suggestions on what a good shutter speed is for a BIF shot? This was at 1/1600, how slow is it OK to go? Anyways, onto the image...
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Dave
edit: This was shot on my balcony, looking west, into the setting sun. There's a large almond tree that splits my view west, quite often these birds start to fly towards the left from the right hand side of the almond tree, and then the tree blocks them from my line of site, so of course I either have to take a shot before they get to the almond tree, or move to my left, along the balcony, and hope I can move quick enough to resume tracking them with the lens.
