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Difficulties with focus when taking birds in flight.
I'm considering getting myself a flash meter and have been browsing the Sekonic website to figure out which unit will best suit my needs. I stumbled across this page.... http://www.sekonic.com/classroom/classroom_2.asp which demonstrates very nicely how you can nail your results perfectly by... -
Difficulties with focus when taking birds in flight.
Very impressive service :) I hope it all works well in practice. Good luck :) -
Difficulties with focus when taking birds in flight.
I did used to have a Weston something or other, courtesy of my dad, but never really used it and now I can't find it. I think the last time I saw it was maybe 20+ years ago. So I did a bit of digging on the internet, Googling for "Weston Master V calibration". From what I found it seems that (a)... -
Difficulties with focus when taking birds in flight.
The only thing to watch for when you first meter to get your manual settings is to ensure you fill the frame with the meter target, or choose a metering mode like partial or spot, to make it easier to aim at exactly what you need. Once you're set up and moving the camera around the meter will... -
Difficulties with focus when taking birds in flight.
Good to hear. In the right conditions (stable lighting) manual exposure simplifies everything. Just set it and forget it (until the light changes). I've just had a thought. If you have a camera like the 40D you could even save some different manual settings in your C1, C2, C3 custom presets... -
Difficulties with focus when taking birds in flight.
You've just explained to yourself why manual exposure is such a great tool. If you have a dark bird in the shot you want it to remain looking dark. You do not want autoexposure to decide for you that it would look much nicer at 18% grey. It's exactly the same with a light coloured bird. It... -
Difficulties with focus when taking birds in flight.
FWIW I've just uploaded an album of BIF shots taken with my 40D at Colchester zoo recently. Every shot here was taken using all focus points and I have included resized full frame images and 100% crops. They're not that great, because the birds were pretty lively and tracking them was a real...