Hi How would you expose for a bird like this which has an extremely black head and the rest is very pale grey and white.
If I try to reduce the intensity in the black in Lightroom it looks all wrong. (I dont have cs3 only elements)
Not much to do with the software you are using !!! In this situation the contrast range is more than you can record.
The only solution is softer light Birds with this range need to be photographed early in the day or very late. If you are under a solid overcast will also work well !!!
At time you can help open up the shadows with fill flash but not always practical !!!! btw exposure wise I would try to keep the whites from being overexposed and deal with the shadows later (not much will be able to be done) For this probably sunny sixteen minus one stop !!! At ISO 400 Would use f 11.0 1/1600
:eek:The bird looks like he has a hood over his head; no details at all, also subject is too centered in the frame. Agree with Al's nits... This one simply does not do it for me...
Gus
I am asking an exposure question not where the bird is in the frame.Or as to whether this is a good shot or not. Im quite aware that its central etc I am asking how do you shoot a bird with an incredibly dark area and also light areas without blowing the whites or as in this case having some detail in the black area.Which Alfred has explained.
Howdy Peregrine, the whites are probably a full stop off of being properly exposed, so you had more room to get detail in the blacks. With that stop of light the blacks would have looked very different. The only way that I would consider photographing a subject like this (in low light conditions) would be with flash. You need a good amount of light to bring out all the subtle details in blacks such as presented here. ;)
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