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Canon: Bird Photography with Arthur Morris: Getting the right exposure



Different factors are involved when achieving proper exposure in your photos. Learn how tools like Evaluative Metering, Highlight Alert and Histograms help you achieve this. For more videos from this tutorial series, check out the Canon Digital Learning Center: http://www.learn.usa.canon.com/home/home.shtml

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26 responses to “Canon: Bird Photography with Arthur Morris: Getting the right exposure”

  4. not only a great video for birders, but probably the best simple breakdown of histogram use for photography in general. completely descrambles the confusion of the histogram for those who are struggling with how to use it to get better exposures

  6. A very informative video for a learner like me. The only thing that is confusing me is how your camera achieved the shutter speed of 1/2000, in the Av mode with f/8 and ISO 400?Although I don't own a dslr, I was trying out this scenario with my canon SX50HS and I NEVER achieve such a high shutter speed in Av mode while trying to shoot a bird in flight in clear light conditions.

  7. nice video!! hopefully the part about exposure compensation will help me with an issue in my photos. i took some of owl in a wooded area and found i was having to increase the ISO to the point there was a lot of noise just to get a decent shutter speed. hopefully upping the exposure compensation will help keep the ISO down!!

  8. or you can use the sunny 16 rule for the above example; for f8 and 1/1000 use iso 200; that's it; and it matters no more if your bird is flying against blue sky or dark foliage

  9. This chap is very good. At last, straightforward, practical advice for real-world situations. Clear explanations, not too techy and without all the nonsense of some other photography channels. Images speak for themselves. Well done, more please!

  15. Hello Eric Cohen,  Glad you enjoyed the tutorial.  Exposure compensation can help in the lighting situation that  you describe.  Adding exposure compensation will give a better exposure on the bird, but it will also lighten the sky.  You might also experiment with spot metering or partial metering if your camera offers these options. These metering patterns will narrow the meter area and ignore much of the sky, especially in spot metering mode.  We hope this is helpful.

  16. thank you for the terrific video. i have one question what if a bird (hawk, eagle) is quite high up in the sky and side or back lit? do i use exposure compensate to brighter the wing pattern and colour? i didn't a few days ago and basically got a b&w image. the sky was white not very overcast; no blue sky except behind me.

  19. I am confused how an underexposed image has more noise. I thought the more light you let in, the more noise you introduce so it would logically follow that higher exposure = more noise. Am I missing something? 

  20. If the dynamic range is more broad than your camera can cover, do you suggest clipping blacks or whites? I would clip blacks as I feel in real life one can often not see enough (in the dark), but short of looking at the sun would never see too much.

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