Originally posted by Mccsiz When you photographed the creeper, were you in deep shade? If so, how did you adjust the camera for such a great shot?
Thank Lloyd! I just checked the details and it was f8.0, 1/500s and 400 ISO at 450mm and -0.3EV. So it really can't have been deep shade - which doesn't generally exist under Eucalyptus trees. The leaves of Eucalypts mostly hang vertically, so they don't generate deep shade like a rainforest or even northern hemisphere deciduous forest. Metering was centre-weighted and it would have been spot AF. I was fortunate that the Treecreeper was quite low on the trunk and focussed on a grub he was digging out of the bark.
With the K3 I generally set the ISO no higher than 400 and the mode at that time would have been aperture priority with a high shutter speed bias set.