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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grumpa" data-source="post: 386280" data-attributes="member: 17855">Thanks Vixen, I know that a lot of photographers use the Aperture Priority mode and I may eventually go there myself but I'm still in the experimenting stage with the D7100 (and now the Tamron) so I've been shooting almost everything in straight manual so far. I do that because it allows me to try anything and everything which is pretty much what I do. If I get a cooperative subject I'll often try several different settings just to see the results. I can read a hundred articles on something but I usually end up more confused that when I started so just experimenting in the field is what works best for me. The hardest part is remembering what works and what doesn't. One definite positive result of all the tinkering though is that I'm slowly getting to know my way around the camera and how to quickly find the right button to push or wheel to rotate, etc etc. ( : Like you, I shoot birds more than anything else too and because of that I have the U1 setting set up just for flyers. Aperture wide open, fast shutter, low ISO and multi-focus points. But lately I've been practicing on slow flyers with just a single focus point though and will probably go to to that for everything before long. It does a lot better job of picking the bird out from the background, if I manage to stay on it that is. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Doesn't seem to matter too much in the open sky but with a tree line or what not in the background the camera gets confused using the multi focus points. I generally shoot birds with the 1.3 crop too since I usually end up cropping away most of the image on the computer later anyway.Thanks for your ideas, I like hearing what others do. Always looking for a better way.</blockquote>

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