Motorcycle Trip

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I've been shooting out of "auto" for a few weeks now!  Anyway, attached are a few pics from a day trip on the bike.  Suggestions/recommended improvements are appreciated as I am just getting started.  The pictures were taken with a Nikon D810 and a 16-35mm lens freehanded (I need a good travel tripod/head for the bike).  I left my CP filter at home and think that would have made the landscape photos a lot better as I had to adjust the exposure in Lightroom quite a bit.  Here goes with my first post here.

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Another one

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Two more, found the link button

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Last one, seems like the pictures look better uploaded rather than linked.

[thierrylegros396]

You seem to have a tendency to blow highlights.

Consider reading some articles about ETTR (Expose to the right) by Michaël.

Thierry

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Thanks, I will check that out.  On the pictures of the field with the bright sky, the image is obviously over exposed.  I was in aperture priority mode at f/5.6.  Looks like the camera set iso to 6400 and shutter speed to 1/8000.  It was a very clear day, so in this situation would I have been better off to have been in complete manual mode and set the iso to something more like 100?

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@ Thierry - just got around to finding that exact article.  I guess the trick would be to take one shot in Aperture mode, note what the auto-iso setting was and bump it up little?  My shots were way overexposed because the ISO was 6400, way too much for a sunny day.

You seem to have a tendency to blow highlights.

Consider reading some articles about ETTR (Expose to the right) by Michaël.

Thierry

[thierrylegros396]

For such photos you don't need to shoot in Av or Manual Mode.

If you want to freeze water movement, use Tv Move and choose more than 1/30 sec.

But if you want to have water smoothed, use less than 1/5 sec and a good tripod.

With such a sunny day, use ISO100 or 200.

Thierry