I have a place to go to see lots of wildlife at last light of the evening. I'm still learning the ways of my camera, like the manual settings, what settings should I be using. I have a nikon D50 with a 70-300 nikkor lense. Mainly deer are the subject at about 40-50 yards. Of course they come out at the last possible light and I'm looking to get some good velvet bucks that I've been seeing. Thanks.
Posted by Dan Borzynski on July 17, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Since the light is changing fairly rapidly, I'd probably favor aperature priority and wide open, or nearly so. You want the shutter speed as high as possible, which won't be very fast in the first place that late in the day, and aperature priority means you can concentrate on the shot and not have to worry about the changing light.
Posted by David Taylor on July 17, 2009 at 11:21 PM
I agree with Dan, aperture priority will be good, because the background likely won't be changing a lot & the overall conditions will be changing very slowly. 1 more thing, everyone hates noise. I don't like it either, but I think we ALL over analyze noise at high ISO's. I remember when ISO 400 film was shunned, because the grain was "too noticeable". With today's cameras, most ISO 800+ shots appear to be similar to ISO 200 or LESS film from 10 years ago. Plus, there are plenty of great options for noise removal in post. Get the shot, sharp & noisy if need be. I'd rather have a sharp noisy shot, than a beautifully clean and blurred image.
Posted by Kent Staubus on July 18, 2009 at 9:26 PM
There's a grain elevator in my area that deer come to and feed late into the night. They eat the spilled grain. I've thought about sitting out there and taking a photo of them. It shouldn't be too hard. I can already light up trains at that location. Get youself some CyberSync triggers and a 1,000ws monolight or two.
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