Nikon D1h, 500mm f/2.8 AF-S, TC-20e, Matrix Metering, Manual Metering, -0.7 ev, Gitzo 410, Wimberly Sidekick.

Snow Geese can be difficult to expose correctly if you aren't aware how meters expose different things. The short explanation is meters try to make all things medium tone. In our bird's case, this would turn our subject's white feathers to gray if you followed it blindly. I used the Sunny-16 rules which totally disregard these meter faults and compensated by pulling the exposure to keep the whites within the capabilites of my camera. If I didn't, the whites would've lost all their detail. Just note, I "pulled" the exposure not because of some meter issue. I did it totally because of the camera's ability to record bright whites.