Red Breasted Robin

RBrogen

A shot of a robin that my son pointed out to me. C&C welcome.

Maestro

Nice capture. My main bit of advice revolves around the exposure. You overexposed the photo causing the background to glare like it does. In bright light I would stop down to F8 or higher. Shooting in Aperture Priority mode will allow you to select the f-stop you want and set a corresponding shutter speed to give you a good expsoure most of the time. I find though that in low light situations you just have to go manual with a flash though.

Anyhow, you lost some nice detail in the robin because of the overexposure. If you shoot in RAW, you probably could fix this exposure because I don't think that you are over 2 stops off and RAW is good for fixing under/overesposures as long as you are in the ballpark, 1 to 2 stops.

RBrogen

Maestro wrote:

Nice capture. My main bit of advice revolves around the exposure. You overexposed the photo causing the background to glare like it does. In bright light I would stop down to F8 or higher. Shooting in Aperture Priority mode will allow you to select the f-stop you want and set a corresponding shutter speed to give you a good expsoure most of the time. I find though that in low light situations you just have to go manual with a flash though.

Anyhow, you lost some nice detail in the robin because of the overexposure. If you shoot in RAW, you probably could fix this exposure because I don't think that you are over 2 stops off and RAW is good for fixing under/overesposures as long as you are in the ballpark, 1 to 2 stops.

Thanks Maestro! The lighting in this area had the extremes very close together where it would go from wicked bright to quite dark and I didn't think to make the adjustment as I had just come out of a darker area and had a higher ISO selected. I'm starting to shoot more in RAW but didn't in this particular case. Thanks again.