A stop of positive exposure compensation was used to lift the shadows of this snoozing king penguin. The camera had to be braced against a handrail as the shutter speed was a mere 1/50 second at ISO3200. Lighting was pretty dim in the air-conditioned penguin pen.
Camera was held low and the screen was used to get the shot. There was a little motion blur on the head of the peacock visible at actual size but, thankfully, things seemed fine at this size.
The tree can apparently grow up to 18 metres (about 60 feet) but this flower was on one barely 1 metre tall.
With a fast enough 1/500-second shutter speed and fast autofocus, nailing this swinging dragonfly was thankfully quite straight forward.
I had wanted to capture more of the underside of the fungi so the screen, and unfortunately a fixed one, was used here. Thankfully, I managed to come away with this image even though the screen was an aging dim one.
These daisies were taken against a tribal shield backdrop under the shade of a tree with the exposure biased 1-1/3 stops darker.
The fragrance of the flowers drew us to the tree. The backdrop was actually shady foliage, so 1-1/3 stops of negative exposure compensation was good enough to get this low-key effect. Greens and yellows were toned down a little in post.
This was taken with the flower back-lit and with the exposure biased a stop darker. Highlights were then pushed up in post while the background was toned down a little.
The dark backdrop had helped with quicker focussing of the moving pelikan here besides allowing better subject isolation. But the dark background would typically also trick the camera into exposing the image brighter and so, to prevent highlights from clipping, the exposure was biased 1-1/3 stops darker for the shot.
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