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Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 17:27:07 No.3948312 View View Reply Original Report

Good morning sirs. I'm going to a Tiger Reserve (an actual forest not a very big enclosed space) next week and I want to learn about wildlife photography. Please enlighten me. I now nothing about ISO etc and have been only shooting on auto mode.
My gear
>Sony Aplha a3000
>55-210 mm e-mount sony lens
>18-55m e-mount sony lens
pic related from Ranthambhore National Park in summer of 2018 or 2019 by me

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 17:53:22 No.3948324 Report

Quoted By: >>3948330 >>3948332

just leave it on auto, that 55-210 is fucking awful but you'll be using it all the time anyway because you're not gonna get close enough to a tiger for the other to work.

if you do get in a position that you need manual mode which idk how you would figure this out, sony has a nice light meter built into the viewfinder and theres even a way tomake it show up on screen. just try to fill the most of the meter with white instead of it all butting up against the left or right of the graph. avoid iso over 1600, avoid shutter speed under 1/30, the rest is whatever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 17:56:56 No.3948325 Report

Quoted By: >>3948330 >>3948332

>>3948312
The 55-120 is less likely to get you mauled and/or eaten.

The general rule with wildlife is fast lenses with long focal length. Don't get caught up in an arms race with people who carry around this shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BZBZFWtF_0

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 18:01:54 No.3948329 Report

Quoted By: >>3948332

>>3948312
Take the 55-210, widest aperture, shutter speed as low as you can manage without motion blur, and set the ISO to auto.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 18:05:29 No.3948330 Report

Quoted By: >>3948332 >>3948361

>>3948324
>>3948325
>You would very far from the tiger
No
Pic related was about 20m from my vehicle
https://youtu.be/-IYMeXozjHk

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 18:10:20 No.3948332 Report

Quoted By: >>3948375

>>3948329
>>3948325
>>3948324
Any good YouTube tutorials for that?>>3948330
This place is the best if not one of the best place to see Tigers in the wild. This is my 4th visit to this place. I will still buy a 200-600 mm lens sometime in the future though (when I go for a snow leopard expedition)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 18:55:39 No.3948361 Report

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>>3948330
yes and 20M on like a 35-75mm equivalate lens is gonna not have very much detail with the 20mp body.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 20:05:02 No.3948375 Report

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>>3948332
>Any good YouTube tutorials for that?
This guy is annoying as fuck, but it should do the trick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNpDL2FEUdI

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