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| 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.
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