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Serious lightweight bird photography is a more difficult type of photography than you may realise. First of all it requires real good knowledge of birds and their behaviour! Also you need plenty of photographing skills, speed of reaction and and one, preferably two or three, sets of high quality semi pro photographic equipment with, during actual bird photography often continuously changing optimal settings thereof because you are in turn dealing with small birds far away, large birds close by and frequently totally unexpected fast bird action of those birds. On top of this wheather and amount or direction of available light may change and consequently your optimal settings of camera or lens.
Of course you know all this already and you may find yourself your bird during photography almost continuously checking and resetting values of APERTURE, ISO and EXPOSURE Time. However – and this is key! – in bird photography you are de facto almost all the time (1) working with a constant value of APERTURE – because you need all the light you can get – (2) using low values of EXPOSURE Time – when you wish to photograph fast bird action – and (3) only incidently changing values of ISO sensitivity. Since you keep APERTURE value constant, only values of ISO and EXPOSURE TIME can be reset avoiding noisy respectively unsharp pictures in case of low available light or fast moving birds.
So, can’t we eliminate this continuous “check & reset” and let the camera do the thinking and get mor time for enjoying our birding and photographing instead of continuously checking and resetting our camera?
Our “APERTURE Mode Birds” is a surprisingly effective and comfortable combination of APERTURE mode, Auto ISO, Easy EXPOSURE Compensation, Back Button Autofocus, structural underexposure and a few other techniques, which all happened to fit perfectly into this special mode of lightweight bird photography, thanks to the programmability of late Nikon camera’s like D500, Z50 and Z7 II. By the way: one can probably program similar camera’s of other brands this way accordingly, although Nikon MLC camera’s of course anyway remain to have this essential advantage of the largest opening for light transmission of all:
Definitely! With a bit of trial and error we developed this “APERTURE Mode Birds”. It facilitates “Fast and easy EXPOSURE time adjustment” and automatises all other settings and it really works, years already!
Our “APERTURE Mode Birds” is a surprisingly effective and comfortable combination of APERTURE mode, Auto ISO, Easy EXPOSURE Compensation, Back Button Autofocus, structural underexposure and a few other techniques, which all happened to fit perfectly into this special mode of lightweight bird photography, thanks to the programmability of late Nikon camera’s like D500, Z50 and Z7 II. By the way: one can probably program similar camera’s of other brands this way accordingly, although Nikon MLC camera’s of course anyway remain to have this essential advantage of the largest opening for light transmission of all:
Rationale behind “APERTURE Mode Birds“
Serious lightweight bird photography is a more difficult type of photogtaphy than you may realise. First of all it requires real good knowledge of birds and their behaviour! Also you need plenty of photographing skills, speed of reaction and and one, preferably two or three, sets of high quality semi pro photographic equipment with, during actual bird photography often continuously changing optimal settings thereof because you are in turn dealing with small birds far away, large birds close by and frequently totally unexpected fast bird action of those birds. On top of this wheather and amount or direction of available light may change and consequently your optimal settings of camera or lens.
Of course you know all this already and you may find yourself your bird during photography almost continuously checking and resetting values of APERTURE, ISO and EXPOSURE Time. However – and this is key! – in bird photography you are de facto almost all the time (1) working with a constant value of APERTURE – because you need all the light you can get – (2) using low values of EXPOSURE Time – when you wish to photograph fast bird action – and (3) only incidently changing values of ISO sensitivity. Since you keep APERTURE value constant, only values of ISO and EXPOSURE TIME can be reset avoiding noisy respectively unsharp pictures in case of low available light or fast moving birds.
So, can’t we eliminate this continuous “check & reset” and let the camera do the thinking and get mor time for enjoying our birding and photographing instead of continuously checking and resetting our camera?
