High speed Greyhound [c&c]

Glowing

Here's one of a dodgy few shots of my hound racing around the garden. I just had my 350D on sports mode. This shot seems a bit overexposed - how can I ensure to have the right light settings for a white dog given I need a really high shutter speed?



Thanks for your comments!

DotOrg

- don't use sports mode

-put the camera on manual exposure, set your iso to something suitable for the light

- set the aperture to what you want it to be to get the depth of field that you want. set the shutter speed to something fast enough to freeze the dog

- take some pictures, look at the lcd, if it's too dark, open up the aperture or set a lower shutter speed or move the iso to make the sensor more sensitive

- repeat until you get the shot you want

Glowing

The problem is I only get one or two attempts because he won't run around all day. I might get 2 or 3 sprints out of him at any one time....
But that sounds like good advice, thanks!

ThOnda

If your dog is almost white and he is going to take the most of the picture surface, you need to set the EV correction into "+" values.
Chceck if you can do that even in the Sport mode. If yes, you have almost won. Set EV to "+0,5" or "+1" and shoot and shoot and shoot...
And good luck! :-)

nilhg

Glowing wrote:

The problem is I only get one or two attempts because he won't run around all day. I might get 2 or 3 sprints out of him at any one time

30 seconds is more than enough for mine. He looks a credit to you, did you ever race him?

Glowing

Thanks - he's a rescue, a retired racer (well retired at 2 and a half years old!) We took him from a sanctuary about 2 years ago - they make fantastic pets!

What does EV stand for?

paudie

At the bottom of your view finder is a row of dots with a marker underneath, if you are in Av or Tv mode this tells the camera how to expose the shot, so if you place the marker in the right hand side of the row of dots it over exposes the shot and under exposes for the left hand side. It over exposes by one, two or three stops etc. depending on how far right you move the marker.

Not sure what exactly EV stands for but that's what he means

Shoot Tv, 1/1000 and ISO 400? that should do it depending on light of course.

ThOnda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_value

However...

The camera is trying to set the exposure to medium gray. So if you are taking picture of the white dog, the camera is trying to make exposure of hte whole picture gray. The dog is going to be very white. To move the middle grey exposure, set the EV to brighter areas to make them whiter/brighter.
If you are taing pictures of the darker objects, camera is going to make them brighter - also gray.

Basicaly, if you are taking a snap in the classroom of the blackboard (black) and the white wall, you should get two completely same pictures.

It is a little complicated and I am not capable to explain it briefly, however there must be a lot of explanations and "lectures" on the web. The dog is worth of getting technicaly perfect pictures. Yours are very very good, make them perfect! I wish I could take pictures like this one. I am too slow with manual focusing to do so...

Borderfox

Great looking dog. Nice shot too.