Moooooo

This manual lark gets a little arrgggghh at times. But practice makes perfect

The first one I tried to get the cows face in focus on the left with the other 2 just a little faded in the back.

Second one was just focusing on the face (where the single fly is). The white at the top stands out a bit to much as the sun was shinning bright.


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Taking photos in harsh sunlight is never easy Sky, but you've done a good job there!

To get things in the distance blurry, try working in aperture priority mode

Thanks Azz. I did bring the aperture down (or up, whatever way it goes) to around f4'ish just so the cows behind were a tad out of focus. The trees at the back even more so.

Is there anything tricks to shooting in bright sun when whites are involved?

Shooting with a wide aperture can make the background blur, but it is also affected by the focal length of the lens, and the distance of the subject from the camera too.

When shooting in full bright sunshine, which I do a lotexpose for the whites in the image, and shoot RAW, it's tricky when you have a two distinct opposites, like black and white next to each other, so always expose for the white. I think you did a good job

Thanks Moon. And thanks for the tip

These are good.

As mentioned already - black and white subjects are difficult to expose at the best of times but bright sun makes life even more difficult. As Moonie said - if it's a case of one or the other expose for the whites rather than the blacks as you can lighten darks in post processing but completely blown whites are unrecoverable.

One thing worth looking at are your metering modes (spot, partial, area etc) and also exposure compensation if you have it.

Thanks Phil. Just had a look at the manual and it does have exposure compensation. I wondered what that was

Do you also have the ability to switch on flashing highlights (sometimes called blinkies) on your rear camera screen ?

If so exposure compensation is handy as you can just quickly look for any flashing then adjust to slightly under expose - check for flashing and so on.

I think I know what you're on about Phil and have seen it on a Nikon. Mine doesn't have that.

These are quite good, and plenty of good advice offered too. I love the vibrancy on the second image, but the first image is lovely in its composition and exposure well done.

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