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Old April 1st 07, 04:12 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Annika1980
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Default Photographing birds in flight

On Apr 1, 2:28 am, jmc wrote:

I've been practicing taking pictures of birds in flight - raptors, for
the most part.

Not surprisingly, all of the ones taken with the sky as background, came
out with very dark birds. Also, for non-soaring birds, I'm finding it
very hard to follow them, and get decent pictures.

Is there a tutorial on the 'net somewheres that'll help me learn how to
take better bird action photos? How much do I compensate when the bird
is silhouetted against the sky?


I usually start at +1 stop Exposuire Compensation and work from there.
Shoot in RAW mode and you can usually bring the sky back to where you
want it if it looks too bright.

As for tracking the birds that is a bit more difficult. With small
fast birds it is almost impossible unless you manually pre-focus to a
certain distance.