Vulture Views...

[traunerk]

On the way home tonight and happened by a convention of vultures. They flew overhead (fooling my camera's meter even with +1 and +2 stops) and then rapidly sailed away.

Here's three from the Vulture Fest...

Regards...Keith

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http://kt.smugmug.com/photos/23075222-M.jpg

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[Harryb]

On the way home tonight and happened by a convention of vultures. They flew overhead (fooling my camera's meter even with +1 and +2 stops) and then rapidly sailed away.

Here's three from the Vulture Fest...

Regards...Keith


THose guys are hard to shoot. I have tried a few times and still haven't come up with anything I like. Yu did pretty good here with real difficult conditions. :thumb

[bfjr]

:agree with Harry

[pathfinder]

Try metering off the sky alone and add +3 EC or more if needed. The underside of a BIF is a shaded area, so the exposure should be close to what you would shoot a shaded subject, which is about 3 stops more than sunlit. Your images look about 1 stop under exposed despite the +2 EC. The sky WILL go completely white with +3 EC, no way to avoid that. Look at Andy's shots of birds - the sky is frequently completely white.

Vultures are not pretty birds up close, but can be in flight, but the black feathers are going to be a lot harder to capture detail in if they are underexposed at all. Try +3EC or more.

You did a good job for a brief fly over shot. Better than mine, which is also underexposed as I look at it again

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/8223989-L.jpg