Nigel, captive Golden Eagle Kate Davis, Raptors of the Rockies University of Montana, Missoula I had the wonderful opportunity to see Kate Davis from Raptors of the Rockies give a presentation about her life with birds. It was held in a conference room with no windows to provide additional light. So I relied on manual exposure settings to freeze the birds when they spread their wings. For this image I set my aperture to its widest opening of f/5.6, my ISO to its highest setting of 12,800 and managed a shutter speed of 1/400 second, just enough to stop the slowly moving wings. The high ISO setting created substantial image noise in the raw file, so I used noise reduction software to greatly reduce the problem. Learn how to use manual exposure and raw images to your advantage in my new course Advance Your Digital Photography . Class starts September 1, 2026 , at the Lifelong Learning Center in Missoula, Montana. Click here for more details and registration.
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