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NIKON D3500

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Aperture 63/10 ISO 800 Shutter 1/400 Focal Length 3000/10

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Apr, 2021

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Behind The Lens

Location

It's was another regular day when I bring my camera to the rooftop in golden hour to shoot random subjects, as photography is is passion, I try to experiment always, and try to learn new things everyday, and from each shot

Time

This was taken on 27th March at 4:44PM, like I said before it was pretty regular those days, I try to shoot at the golden hour in the evening, and sometimes I go early for setup and practice a bit before the actual hour hits, and I was lucky this day as I got this shot real quick.

Lighting

There is not much about lighting, I was facing south and the photo was lacking a bit shadows, but I exposed it such that I have enough headroom for post, I try to shoot always such that the photos look natural and pleasing but you know there's not much option when you are shooting birds and specially in a rooftop, there is only one angle to work with and you can't tell them to pose for you xD I didn't wanted to use a flash (there was no time to set it up anyway) as I wanted the edge light, I got a bit of edge light but there's nothing much I could have done, there were sitting in such a position.

Equipment

This was shot using Nikon D3500 with a VR Kit 70-300mm @300mm this was the camera I bought this year and it was a dream come true moment for me.

Inspiration

I was watching instagram the other day and got one photographer shoot birds, I loved them and from that day I was trying to capture birds, specially flying birds I gave it some shots but was lacking focus on the flying birds, the 3D tracking on D3500 is hit and miss, most of the time it's a complete miss.

Editing

RAW photos always need post processing, here specially as the shadows were lacking , I had to boost them, and also normalize the exposure as most of the time I choose a middle ground to expose the highlights and shadows, that keeps enough headroom to bake the image perfectly, this is not perfect though but not bad too.

In my camera bag

I'm a noob to be honest I just own a Camera as of now, so my bag contains the D3500 Body and the two VR kit lenses (18-55 and 70-300) and two old memory cards for backup 1GB and 2GB there are really slow tbh. I bought a 50mm f/1.8 recently, and plan on buying some filters (CPL and ND) soon.

Feedback

Golden hour is the key, you can get way better results if you can align the shot such a way that the sun faces behind the birds and thus you get the beautiful edge glow, shoot in RAW and expose the image keeping data to the middle of the histogram so that yo have enough headroom for post, don't blow up anything and yo are good.

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