BrandonsBirbs
Thanks HopKat for my PFM ♥
Yeah, overexposure on the white birds and underexposure on the black birds such as Jackdaws and Crows which are our main bird around here.It sounds like the issue you are having is bad exposures (assuming it is overexposure blowing out the highlights on the birds?)
Yes it's called matrix, thank you.I would recommend always using evaluative metering (matrix in your camera I think).
I'm not sure but this is a guess, the shake reduction with the Bigma didn't seem to help only take away from the images however my new glass is Pentax so maybe itd work best with the inbuilt SR? Worth a try thank you!I would also leave the shake reduction on when handholding, unless it is causing you problems. This way you can use slower shutter speeds when necessary and still get sharp images.
Okay it's not just me, good!!I use the same settings as you. 1/400 or more for stationary and 1/2000 or more for BIF. Auto ISO and Auto aperture.
I've never had a camera that got the exposure perfect on light colored birds in full sun.
This sounds great, thank you so much Dee's this is what I needed! Appreciate the information as always!Anytime the bird has a light color on it and the sun is out the camera will almost always overexpose the image and blow the highlights. You correct this by lowering the exposure compensation by around 2/3rds of a stop. I pretty much leave my exposure compensation at this most of the time. Sometimes you have to lower it more and occasionally you don't need to lower it at all.
You always want to take one image of your subject then look at the image and make sure there are no blinkies (highlights blown out). If there are you lower the exposure compensation until you do not clip the highlights. Then in post processing you can add some exposure back to the overall image then reduce the highlights so the bright whites do not get blown out.