I am not sure about others, but my issue with birds and auto anything is that the bird is usually a small part of the scene that the metering system exposes for the background and not the bird. Of course, if they have similar exposure/light, that is fine.

But most often if I am in auto anything I have it set to underexpose by 1-1.5 stops.

More often, I am in full manual and I set my exposure on something similar to what I expect for the birds. I get burned once in awhile if lighting changes. But more often than not that is working for me.


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