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700d metering modes

Started Mar 1, 2019 | Discussions
Jacob223
Jacob223 Forum Member • Posts: 64
700d metering modes

What metering mode would you suggest for wildlife photography and sports photography?

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AnthonyL Veteran Member • Posts: 3,686
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Jacob223 wrote:

What metering mode would you suggest for wildlife photography and sports photography?

I nearly always use Spot, or Centre Weighted average, taking care on the actual subject luminosity, as it is usually the centre of the image that I'm trying to get right in those circumstances and I'm not interested in the background.  I'll likely go Evaluative for general scenes.

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Re: 700d metering modes
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Jacob223 wrote:

What metering mode would you suggest for wildlife photography and sports photography?

+1 for Center-weighted metering. It'll provide the most predictable and consistent exposures. Spot metering OTOH will be all over the place, especially for moving subjects ...assuming you're shooting in an auto exposure mode (Scene mode, Green A, P, Av, Tv, M w/Auto ISO).

Personally I would shoot in full Manual exposure  mode. Set the exposure once, and then you don't have to adjust it again until the light level changes, or until the light angle on the subject changes (ie sunlit side to shaded side).

You won't have to worry about losing shots due to bad exposures. They'll be nice and consistent, even in very difficult lighting situations...

Manual exposure mode. Heavily backlit scene, deep in the woods. Click on "original size"

All exposures were dead on.

Manual mode works wonderfully with difficult subjects too...

Full Manual mode. No blown out whites. Ever. Click on "original size"

Perfect exposures no matter what is happening to the background...

Click on "original size"

No matter the brightness/color of your subjects either...

Light on light.

Light on dark.

Best of luck!

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