Comments on: First Day Homer Favorite https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/03/18/first-day-homer-favorite/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/03/18/first-day-homer-favorite/comment-page-1/#comment-64552 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:46:59 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=4684#comment-64552 In reply to Clear Ken.

Ken, There is no camera that gets the right exposure all or even most of the time. Folks need to learn their cameras, learn exposure theory, learn digital exposure, learn to evaluate and adjust the histogram, and learn to check for flashing highlights. We teach you all of those things in the original ABP (soft cover) and in ABP II(916 pages on CD only). Again, I would love to re-write the two books for you here but they total more than 1,100 pages…. You are lucky that today there are such fabulous teaching resources available. You do however need to purchase them and then study them. You are looking for easy answers across the board: the only answer is to work and study hard… You can save $10 by purchasing the two-book combo here.

Thanks for the advise about leaving extra space.

]]> By: Clear Ken https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/03/18/first-day-homer-favorite/comment-page-1/#comment-64288 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:25:08 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=4684#comment-64288 I am not too sure which photo it was, but you made an adjustment to either under or over expose to the camera because of the dark or light colour wings – Does Canon not have a camera out now, so that you can set the exposure to just the one square in the viewfinder, so you can get an accurate reading of the dark wings say, then the camera will make the automatic ISO reading, to get the exposure that you want. This way, all the work is done by the camera once the shooter aims at the area he/she wants metered , and the camera makes the automatic ISO reading to get the histogram exposured properly.

Just a comment with the eagle that you rebuilt – because of clipping – You did a really nice job, I try to take wildlife photos, and expanding into birdlife, but if I get a photo with the tail clipped or some part of the animal clipped, that photo is toast. That’s why it is more important to have extra space around the shot to try and aviod clipping. If you don’t get some clipped photos, you really not challenging your skills. – at least that’s what I think

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