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How does Nikon d5 shoot birds to focus?

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Don't turn the aperture to the maximum.

Although a large aperture can take a shallow depth of field and blur the background, it is easy to make the depth of field shallow under long focus.

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Moreover, birds can move, and the depth of field is too shallow to blur the subject. Therefore, when shooting birds, you may wish to use the aperture of f/5.6-8 to keep the depth of field within a reasonable range and highlight the subject.

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The shutter should be fast

According to the action of the bird to be photographed, the shutter speed to be maintained is determined, and generally a faster shutter speed is used.

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For birds, their movements can be clearly captured at 1/800s or above, and it is better for birds at rest to keep the shutter speed not lower than 1/250s.

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Make full use of on-site metering

Generally speaking, cameras have three different metering systems, and the most commonly used one is evaluation metering.

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However, in order to make the target birds have the correct exposure, we can adjust the camera for spot metering to keep the birds at the metering point.

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In this way, even if you shoot into the sky, the birds will not be underexposed. However, please note that some cameras only measure the spotlight in the middle when they are set to spotlight. Please test your camera first.