On 7/31/2026 6:36 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On 2026-07-31 14:21, John Sessoms wrote:
Yep. That's what I'm working on right now. Trying to get comfortable
with it.
TaV mode is what I use anytime I am shooting in a situation when I don't
know for a fact that I can get all of the shutter speed and depth of
field I want at a specific ISO. I have lost many more photos to too
slow of a shutter, or potentially too little depth of field (the camera
didn't quite focus on the eye) than I have from too high of an ISO. I
do remember one time I was processing photos of some friends playing at
a show, noticed that one photo was a little noiser than ideal, and found
out that it was at 25,600.
I've also been able to go back and reprocess raw files years later with
much better noise reduction software and clean up noisy files.
So yea, TAV is the way to go. I'll also point out that you could set up
a hot light aimed at the feeder and alleviate a lot of those problems.
Birds don't seem to care about stationary lights.
I noticed that a lot of my images were backlit almost to the point of
becoming silhouettes, so I set up a 75W PAR Flood Lamp in one of those
$1.98 clamp-on holders from Lowe's to give me fill at the feeder.
I'm shooting with the K-1, K-3 and K10D; leave the tripod & lens set up
all the time & just swap bodies from time to time. Using center point
focus to set the "zone" & burst to get several frames at a time.
I might look for a brighter flood light. The 75W was what I had laying
around.
I want it to be lit without looking lit.
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