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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grandpaw" data-source="post: 196389" data-attributes="member: 8635">Looks like you have gotten the answer because these look pretty good.Different settings work better for some people than others but I will give you the settings that I use a lot and seem to work for me. When I am photographing birds and wildlife most of the time I shoot aperture priority and my camera is set to F5.6. At most distances this will give me all the depth of field I need. As i shoot closer subjects I increase my F stop to maybe F7 or F8 because if you are zooming in on a subject that is relatively close your depth of field drops to just about nothing. In cases where I need to stop some faster action I will shoot on shutter priority and choose a suitable speed to get the shot I am after. Remember that even when you are shooting a bird in flight that you are panning with the subject and only need enough shutter speed to stop the motion of the wings because you are moving at the same speed as the bird which make it just about the same as if it were sitting still, it's only the wing you need to stop.Most of the time I use matrix metering but if I do a preview on the rear LCD screen and it is not giving me what I want I might change to spot metering. As far as focusing I use single point focus 99.9% of the time no matter what subject I am shooting. Shooting single point on a moving subject takes a little practice to get use to but I just do not like my camera deciding what the point of focus is going to be. I also have my camera set up to show me where the point of focus was on the LCD screen when reviewing my picture and this lets me know emidiatly if the subject is in focus or not.Remember that this works well for me but may not work for you. If you ask 25 people how they shoot subjects you just may get 25 different answers. This is a learning process and you just have to try different techniques and see what works the best for you.</blockquote>

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