A question for you BIF shooters. How do you set your exposure metering, or do you manually select an ISO? I'm trying to set my custom dial to BIF mode, and I wasn't sure if Auto ISO was the way to go or not. I usually don't use auto, but I thought it might be more necessary for moving subjects.
A question for you BIF shooters. How do you set your exposure metering, or do you manually select an ISO? I'm trying to set my custom dial to BIF mode, and I wasn't sure if Auto ISO was the way to go or not. I usually don't use auto, but I thought it might be more necessary for moving subjects.
Exposure vary upon many situation in my experience. Most of the time I do use manual mode only and gauge the shooting situation. If its up in sky you may want to crank the EV manually to expose the bird properly as in my experience metering is wonky in the Olympus in this situation and believe me you would not want to use spot metering.
More over I mostly set my iso auto and fix my aperture and shutter ... my auto iso for bif is in range of 200-4000 so i dont have to change frequently. and also I use another feature next in the AUTOISO set menu is Lowest S/S setting and i keep it 1600.
A question for you BIF shooters. How do you set your exposure metering, or do you manually select an ISO? I'm trying to set my custom dial to BIF mode, and I wasn't sure if Auto ISO was the way to go or not. I usually don't use auto, but I thought it might be more necessary for moving subjects.
I usually have my cameras set to auto iso, I've forgot to reset it too many times. I also tend to lower EC to -1/3ev or -2/3 to help preserve highlights when shooting towards a bright sky, then lift shadows in post. It's not the best for noise levels, but I'd prefer a little noise to blown highlights. Metering is usually set to ESP.
This morning before breakfast I decided to explore the Magnolia Plantation in the area where I live. Finally after many weeks I found that bird i have been looking for:
Barred Owl. On the first photo it's the mom. She just came back from hunting. On the second you see her chick swallowing a frog its mother just brought.
It was very challanging to get them behind all the branches and leaves. My AF was really fighting...my equipment is really old probably too old. Also the light conditions were everything but not perfect.
The third photo shows the chick after the meal. Looks hungry again ;-)
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A question for you BIF shooters. How do you set your exposure metering, or do you manually select an ISO? I'm trying to set my custom dial to BIF mode, and I wasn't sure if Auto ISO was the way to go or not. I usually don't use auto, but I thought it might be more necessary for moving subjects.
I shoot primarily on Manual mode and use Auto ISO ranging Auto to 6400. I think I will want to change it to be from 200-6400 kudos to Mital post.
I use ESP metering. I would fix the metering in PP. I know it isn't the same, but it is good enough for me
I also use SS or Aperture to adjust the exposures and agreed with Mital about needing to adjust EV when bird are against the sky. Otherwise, I always end up with lots of dark images!!
I just wanted to share some of my friend Curtis's recent BIF photos. He used an EM1X w/40-150 Pro+MC-14. I can't download them to post here, so you'll have to go to his Flickr albums. It's worth it, I guarantee.
After a year of patiently looking for them, he finally got some great captures of the red-tailed tropic birds at Halona Blowhole. His persistence was rewarded and he got some great shots. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmVuHhgg
He also went to Kahuku Point and got some albatrosses and a chick. I went there this past weekend, but saw only one adult. They are Laysan albatrosses. There are even more at Kaena Point. Seabird conservationists have been working for decades to get the albatrosses to nest in the main Hawaiian Islands, and as you can see, they have succeeded in establishing nesting colonies. They were formerly only found in the largely uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, but those mainly low islands are under threat by rising seas due to climate change. These birds are near threatened species. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmVt4m9w
Here's one of my not as good albatross shots. I only saw one adult flying and it came and went so quickly, I only got a few grab shots. I'm pretty sure this is a Laysan albatross.
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