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Here are a couple of examples from some shots yesterday, of a kingfisher. I managed a few shots while he was perched on one branch before he flew off and settled again on another branch close by. The sunlight on the kingfisher was pretty much the same on both brances, but the background to each branch was very different indeed. Once I'd established a good manual exposure for the first perch I did not even have to make an adjustment when he moved perches. The changing background did not affect my exposure at all, nor did it need to. Manual kept things so much simpler than fiddling around with exposure compensation would have between shots.
Here are the two scenes for comparison....
The exposure was the same for both at 1/1000, f/6.3, 400 ISO. The changing background has not influenced the exposure at all. Some might argue that I should have used fill flash, to brighten the shadows, but I actually like the contrast between the vibrant colours of the sunlit head and the body in shade.
I've been wanting to get a proper sighting of a kingfisher for years. I have seen them flashing by a couple of times in the past, but never perched. In the last week I have seen a KF on two separate occasions, both flying and perched. Marvellous
Here are the two scenes for comparison....
The exposure was the same for both at 1/1000, f/6.3, 400 ISO. The changing background has not influenced the exposure at all. Some might argue that I should have used fill flash, to brighten the shadows, but I actually like the contrast between the vibrant colours of the sunlit head and the body in shade.
I've been wanting to get a proper sighting of a kingfisher for years. I have seen them flashing by a couple of times in the past, but never perched. In the last week I have seen a KF on two separate occasions, both flying and perched. Marvellous
