On Aug 8, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > Is the exposure, perhaps, the result of being taken from a background shadow > or...? To avoid the dreaded "clipping", I often lock in a quick meter reading > taken from something slightly lighter than the main subject. When shooting > wildlife, however, one seldom has the chance to fiddle with various > exposures. It's something that must be anticipated and be a part of the > preset. > I keep a -1/2 preset. I've heard of some doing such to speed up the shutter, > thereby, reducing noise grain. Seems any effect would be largely/wholly > imaginary.
I think underexposure will do more to increase noise than would a longer exposure. Sounds like this would be self defeating. Paul > > Jack > > --- On Sun, 8/8/10, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Peso Decisions >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> Date: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 9:34 AM >> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:26 AM, >> Christine Aguila >> <cagu...@earthlink.net> >> wrote: >>> A good moment caught, Dave. The blue jay looks >> great! If you use >>> Lightroom, did you try the recover slider on the nuts? >> Cheers, Christine >> >> Yep. It is now at 100%. and i needed to do a -0.43 exposure >> to loose >> the clipping.Every time i try the birds here, be it peanuts >> or >> saphhire?? seeds, the main body of the photo is fine for >> exposure and >> the seeds/nuts are always burnt out. >> >> LR 2 BTW >> >> Dave >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David J Brooks" >> <pentko...@gmail.com> >>> To: "Pentax Discuss" <pdml@pdml.net>; >> "Barbara Brooks" <bbaro...@gmail.com>; >>> "Petch Dianne" <dianne.pe...@yahoo.com> >>> Cc: "Home Sarah" <sarah.h...@firstgroup.com>; >> "Conley Leah" >>> <leah.con...@firstgroup.com>; >> "Smillie Dale" <dale.smil...@firstgroup.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:17 AM >>> Subject: Peso Decisions >>> >>> >>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11396892 >>>> >>>> Again problems with the nuts burned out. >>>> >>>> K10D D FA 50-200 >>>> >>>> Comments welcome >>>> ' >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >>>> www.caughtinmotion.com >>>> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >>>> York Region, Ontario, Canada >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the >> link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
