Red Kite

[Carol]

I need to be quicker at changing the exposure compensation on my70D. This Red Kite flew over and I managed to snatch this shot before changing the settings. But by the time I had done so, he was too far away. I had to bring up the shadows on this shot which made it noisy. Noise reduction smoothed out the feathers. I keep telling myself its all good practice.

Canon 70D
70-200mm f4L lens
f5.6 at 1250 sec on ISO 400
Polarising filter


Red Kite by cazza5311, on Flickr</iframe>

Regards,

Carol

[Hereford_EOS]

Re: Red Kite

You have done well Carol

[tesarver]

Re: Red Kite

Nice shot.

Tom

[wayne2418]

Re: Red Kite

A nice shot. I think I might have put the bird on the lower third, looking as if it was flying into the shot.

Just my opinion.

[Stan]

Re: Red Kite

The bird is still a bit dark but not too bad considering your settings. To get it right in camera you need to be adding exposure compensation of between 1 and 2 stops and not sure why you needed to use a polarising filter

Stan

[Bill53]

Re: Red Kite

Well done.

Bill.

[Carol]

Re: Red Kite

Thank you, guys.

The camera was in aperture priority so it picked the shutter speed. I had only just got the camera out, and it still had the polarizing filter on from my previous shoot and I didn't get a chance to remove it before seeing the bird.

I will remember the 1 to 2 stops of exposure compensation for next time, Stan.

Regards,

Carol

[the black fox]

Re: Red Kite

easy to do if you have it set on the rear wheel ,a simple spin to the right .without taking your eye off the bird

[Carol]

Re: Red Kite

Please could you help me learn how would I set that up, Black Fox?

Regards,

Carol

[Brian Sugden]

Re: Red Kite

Birds in flight in a clear blue sky aren't easy and I agree with Stan that you need to add between 1 to 2 stops of exposure compensation.

Brian