Shot at a free flight demo, Adler and Wolfspark Kasselburg, Germany. Original was about 1 stop underexposed and the kestrel's right wing was slightly clipped. Original sky was overcast and has been replaced in this composite with a cloudy sky from a different shot.
Excellent capture Dieter !!!! Sure wish you would get away from spot metering No clue how it could help you come up with an exposure for this situations.
Doing other type of photography I did use a spot meter a lot. Even got a Zone V1 modified Pentax One Degree meter. I find the matrix or multi to be more useful Can even just take a reading the shoot manual
Any way love the pose and great detail One smoking image !!! Big Congrats !!!!
Alfred - initially I have been using the matrix metering - resulted in a lot of overexposed images though - and I had a hard time dialing in exposure corrections for consistent results. With spot metering I feel I have a good handle on the necessary exposure correction - if I have the time to dial them in (which wasn't the case for the shot above). Given the lighting, I'd probably had dialed in about +1 or +1 1/3 exposure correction, saving me the trouble with the noise in the current image.
However, I have started again to evaluate my position on spot vs matrix metering and am giving the later a shot again - looks like I just need to dial in some negative EV most of the time.
Excellent image Dieter,
Love that dive bomber flight angle...very nice indeed...:D The colors and details on your subject work for me...:) Keep them coming....:cool:
European Kestrel
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