Assignment: Manual metering

[Alfred Forns]

From the beach a good example of going manual. Once you find an exposure you like just lock it in and fire away as long as the light is constant. All you need to take into consideration is the color of the subject. Even here I'm photographing mostly a particular subject lets say a white bird, then I just open 1/3 for darker ones.


Comments welcome and much appreciated

Canon 50D
500 f4.0 IS 1.4X
f 8.0 1/400 sec
ISO 250
Manual exp

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Very nice and appears to be breeding plumage of xxxxxxx species? I am not a shorebird guru. :D

Wish for the bottom center and to a small degree RC to be a bit cleaner Sir. :)

Congrats! :)

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Thanks for posting this info on MM AL. It all helps:) Would have been perfection without the OOF elements, but I must say I find your DOF quite wonderful here. And the exposure looks spot on. Like the crop too.

[Gus Cobos]

Love the play on the depth of field and selective focus point...the color rendition is very good and so is the ultra low capture angle...this must have been a belly shot...:D:cool:

[Harold Davis]

the compo is really cool, but the detail is over the top.

[Harold Davis]

hey al, thanks for obliging me here. i worked it totally in capture nx2 and came up with this. about the only thing i see different is yours is a little under mine. i could have gone there, but wanted to see what you said about it first.

thanks again!!! i need a prime lens for sure!!!

[Alfred Forns]

Looks good Harold ... you thinking on a prime lens :) wonder how it will be after being able to zoom like you do now !!!!

[Desmond Chan]

I like this image very much. Love the fact that we could see the eye/eyes of each of them. I prefer the original version though.