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Glenn

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when photographing wild life what priority is best used? apperture or shutter?
Reason i ask is i normally use shutter priority but ive been finding alot of pics tend to end up with alot of noise.(grainy)

i tried to use apperture but as soon as the target moves it blurs out.

Any advice appreciated, big or small:thumbs:
 
Aperture priority. Check the shutter speed and if it's too slow, then increase the ISO.

That should help :)
 
Manual :thumbs: :lol:
 
Hi glen
I recieved this valuable piece of advice from a new member called martyn I have been having trouble with light in the location I tog most of my bird pictures he sent me this in a private message hope it helps .

I used to have the D80. Thought I could pass on the following in private rather than on an open forum, apologies if you know this but you may not, and it should help in those dark conditions

Ramp the ISO up set on auto max 1600. (Dont worry about noise Imagtronic Noiseware have a free standalone download for windows that is great at cleaning up images, run through on default) I found the D80 fine up to 1000 anyway.

Spot Meter small birds rather than matrix

White balance - SUNNY - its always sunlight that is lighting the subject, Auto White balance is never accurate

Use shutter Priority try and get 1/250 min, those little devils move about too much to go much slower.
 
Funny you should ask. For reasons i wont disclose I have had the pleasure of looking at 1000's of pro wildlife pic's, and it seems from the exif, that the photographers are constantly changing the settings - often manual, sometimes shutter, occasionally apeture

Distance to subject seems to be the deciding factor a lot (I suppose I would want to be 1/2 a mile away from a angry hungry lion too)

The other thing that happens a lot is that they are using 3/4 cameras, all set up with different (very classy) lenses on them It seems they use apeture on the wideangle, and shutter priority more on the long zooms. But I suppose when the light is bright, and the lens is a 2.8 or lower, you have a luxury of a reasonable choice
 
thank you all for your advice so far.
Will have a play about with camera today and will see what happens.
thank you again :thumbs:
 
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