Thrilled
My Flickr friend, Sue (you can find her here: flic.kr/ps/25bYHh recently posted a photo of a Bobolink. I had commented that I'd never seen one before and would have to keep my eyes open. Sure enough, on a photo walk this afternoon, we saw a couple of them. This one, like most of my other wildlife subjects, refused to sit still for long but I did manage to catch a few images of him at the top of a small tree before he flew off again. I used spot metering with a one stop over exposure so he wouldn't just be a dark blob against that light cloudy sky. Predictably, it resulted in a high key effect but at least it kept some detail in the bird. I was just thrilled to see him at all.
Thrilled
My Flickr friend, Sue (you can find her here: flic.kr/ps/25bYHh recently posted a photo of a Bobolink. I had commented that I'd never seen one before and would have to keep my eyes open. Sure enough, on a photo walk this afternoon, we saw a couple of them. This one, like most of my other wildlife subjects, refused to sit still for long but I did manage to catch a few images of him at the top of a small tree before he flew off again. I used spot metering with a one stop over exposure so he wouldn't just be a dark blob against that light cloudy sky. Predictably, it resulted in a high key effect but at least it kept some detail in the bird. I was just thrilled to see him at all.