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Photography => Equipment and Technique => Topic started by: Tobias Timm on November 29, 2015, 04:07:00 PM

Title: Low-light birds in flight
Post by: Tobias Timm on November 29, 2015, 04:07:00 PM

Hello,
Does anyone have any tips for good settings to use when trying to capture birds in-flight when the weather is overcast and dark? A high shutter speed is needed, but this darkens the photo quite a bit, and raising the ISO only does so much...

Any response is appreciated.

Title: Re: Low-light birds in flight
Post by: Brian Bailey on December 01, 2015, 08:39:20 AM

Low light and a moving subject are not generally the ingredients of a sharp photo. If you are trying to add some detail to a silhouette, try over exposing by about 2 stops (as a starting point). It will reduce your shutter speed and turn your sky white, but it will brighten the bird.


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Title: Re: Low-light birds in flight
Post by: Dinusaur on December 02, 2015, 06:23:25 PM

Brian has summarized it very well. In addition, if you are a Nikon user, you can try Spot metering and 9 point focusing and of course opening the aperture as much safely as you can.