Atlantic White Sided Dolphins

I took this photo on August 20th off the coast of New Hampshire. It was a very dark, cloudy, overcast, and foggy day, but the picutres came out decent with all things considered. Since the photo quality rarely comes out *that* great on overcast days using the Sports Mode (which I normally used) I thought it would be a good chance to try using Tv Mode. I set the shutter speed to 1250 and ISO at 800. Any thoughts on these settings? What settings would you use to photograph whales on cloudy, overcast days?

(The following photos were adjusted and resized in PS.)

I think they look fine. They're both pretty cool in my book.

Welcome to the forum. Very nice images. Using Tv Mode is a good strategy for shooting fast moving, not here one second, here another subjects, e.g., birds in flight and your dolphins. Chose the fastest shutter speed that will under the lighting circumstances yield a proper exposure and let your camera chose the aperture. BTW I perused your whale watching sight. You have some great captures there too.

Excellent shots of fast moving subjects, I like them as well.

I'm glad to see you got to see some dolphins this summer! They're so much fun to watch! Great shots... now I'm going to have to go out again!

Great captures Zipline. I wouldn't change anything in your settings if you got shot like these.

I also viewed your wonderful whale shots. I think that HW25 is my very favourite!!!

Beautiful shots, I wouldn't have changed a thing .

Wow, those are great photos! I think your settings were right on, that's what I would have done for that day. I almost always use TV mode and a high shutter speed to prevent camera shake and capture moving objects. Dolphins are quite difficult to capture, at least from my limited experience. I was out whale watching a couple weeks ago and while I didn't see any whales I did see tons of dolphins (technically whales!) I took lots of shots and they were pretty decent but getting their faces is difficult. Actually I need to get a medium sized lens as many were too close for my 400mm lens. The whale watching link you provided is amazing. I'm going to bookmark that. Some breathtaking shots in there. Aside from the awesome whale shots, I really like the Greater Shearwater shot...a favorite bird of mine and one I'm dying to get close to.

Very nice shots. I wouldnt change a thing either