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In the second one you had your exposure compensation set to -0.67EV, but I still can't for the life of me figure out why your camera would choose 1/8000 as an appropriate shutter speed. Changing your metering mode from partial to spot may have helped some.

Your biggest problem may be that 70-200's are known to malfunction if they haven't shot ducks first. Canon tried to solve the problem with a limited edition box, but found they had to be live ducks. They're still fighting PETA on the shipping logistics for that one.

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pprice wrote in post #5953187
Both of you gave some great advise .

Im not really messing with any post processing yet. I am trying to take a good picture that needs little PP when done. I know, I got a long way to go lol. It is OK though, Im only taking pictures right now to get better, not to keep them (although I will keep some to laugh at when I get better).

Thanks for the tip Y'all, I will use them today!

Now there's a great idea! I'm going to start a folder for all my 'best' crap shots. I was going through and deleting a few of the really awful ones...but I'm thinking that could be really good for reference.

I also think of a sort of triangle too. But I think of it as a fraction.....x/y = z. Change one and it effects the others. You just have to pick which one is the most important to you to get it as close to that point as possible.

I love POTN. *heart*

griptape, I think I had everything so screwed up by changing this or that is probably why it was at that setting lol.

I tried a picture of my car this time. I tried to remember all the advise I had been given.

I will just post it here instead of making a whole new thread. It is just in my yard, so the scenery is not very good, but it works for practice.

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The images are still very underexposed. Here is an example of one of your car shots with a bit better exposure.

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Dang, I wonder why it keeps doing like that . It has that bar in the view finder, but no matter what I change I cant make it go to the middle.

I have been reading and I think I understand what is happening. With the bright sun and different shades around, I must be locking my AE on a spot that is darker. So if I lock it on a brighter spot, then go back to the subject, I should get a better exposer.

This is all a guess of course

pprice wrote in post #5956669
I have been reading and I think I understand what is happening. With the bright sun and different shades around, I must be locking my AE on a spot that is darker. So if I lock it on a brighter spot, then go back to the subject, I should get a better exposer.

This is all a guess of course

It is just the opposite of that. On my XTi, I hold down the Av button next to the LCD viewing screen and then roll the thumbwheel.

Huh, I dont have a av button . All I have is the av setting on the main wheel.

pprice wrote in post #5957574
Huh, I dont have a av button . All I have is the av setting on the main wheel.

I figured that the 40D might be different. If you check the owner's manual under exposure bias compensation or something similar, I think that you will find how to change it.

pprice wrote in post #5956669
I have been reading and I think I understand what is happening. With the bright sun and different shades around, I must be locking my AE on a spot that is darker. So if I lock it on a brighter spot, then go back to the subject, I should get a better exposer.

This is all a guess of course

You're still in aperture priority. Your f stop is 3.2. Move it to about 11, then see where that bar ends up. Your shutter speed is 1/2500th, unless you want a really narrow depth of field.

Nice car!!

pprice wrote in post #5957574
Huh, I dont have a av button . All I have is the av setting on the main wheel.

Go to page 93 of your owners manual.

bill boehme wrote in post #5957790
Go to page 93 of your owners manual.

Oh darn, I didn't have my switch pushed up one past the on position, oops. I read the manual, but I had so much to take in at once, I guess I did not retain that part .

Thanks bro!!

OK pprice - where are you really from? I can't imagine a Mississippian not knowing a duck from a goose...... I mean even the biggest city in Mississippi can't be that citified can it? But then I saw your car and it helped me understand a bit. Nice car.

I've enjoyed this thread. You'll learn lots fast here.

Keep shooting.

Titus213 wrote in post #5958840
OK pprice - where are you really from? I can't imagine a Mississippian not knowing a duck from a goose...... I mean even the biggest city in Mississippi can't be that citified can it? But then I saw your car and it helped me understand a bit. Nice car.

I've enjoyed this thread. You'll learn lots fast here.

Keep shooting.

Haha, I am born but only half raised in Mississippi. I actually grew up in japan (military brat) and moved back to Ms. when I was about 16-18, then went to Florida for the next 10 years for school and play, then ended back in Ms. I never even went duck hunting, only deer. I do feel like a moron not knowing that was not a duck .

I feel pretty good about todays shoots! I am up at 0400hrs waiting for the sun to come up so I can practice the new stuff I have learned!!