In lots of article and books I have seen that exposure compensation depends on the color, and of course 18% grey and blah blah. Now, my realization is it also depends on the metering mode. Let say your metering mode is Spot, so you just need to worry about 2-3 % of the image, if its evaluative or matrix then you need worry about the complete image, 100%. So in case Sport your headache is less as you are worrying about only a tiny portion of your picture and in case evaluative you should worry about the whole image's color composition. Let’s go by the golden rule, if it’s white then +2 exposure compensation and if it's black then -2 exposure compensation. I love wildlife photography so I always love to refer animals and their complexion for the exposure compensation discussion....

Lot of time we face problems while taking picture because of cluttered background and bokeh lights. I have devised for myself few rules that help me to get rid of these things,

1. Depending upon the light, I narrow the aperture that is increase the f number and also sometime use flash along with small aperture. Small Aperture not only increases the DOF, it also reduces the light so if the background consists of clutter bush etc, then all these gets hidden and the fill in flash makes the subject evenly illuminated.

2. The other option would be what I call as Reverse Rule of third. In Rule of third we place the subject in any of the intersection point, and allow the audience to traverse through the whole Image and in that case we need give due importance to the background....

Once one of my Photography Instructor asked me a simple question, “Which one is better, a watch that is stopped or a watch that always runs 10 minutes late?” The answer is, always prefer the stopped watch as its gives correct time at least twice a day. In case focusing for a moving element I always remember the same. There are different types of birds in terms of their flying speed and size. The Egrets are medium sized (Though they have thin neck that makes it difficult to focus their eyes) and their quite slow. The falcons are extremely fast and some birds fly very infrequently. Some birds fly and stop in the air for sometime to see everything around and then proceed. Some birds do walks/runs very fast with the wings spread, like jungle foul.

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