On Sunday this past weekend I had the chance for a February practice session, photographing birds-in-flight at a local frozen-over harbour. Most of the birds were ducks and geese, along with a few gulls.
Category Archives: Animals
Buried in Branches
It can be difficult to photograph birds buried in branches, especially smaller subjects that don’t give us much of an auto-focus target.
Similar Subjects With Different Sensors
This article discusses photographing similar subjects with different sensors, and shares a selection of blossom images.
Handheld Bird Photography eBook
We have just published our 188 page Handheld Bird Photography eBook, which features over 430 original bird images. This new eBook covers a range of content areas that are fundamental to handheld bird photography.
Best Cameras and Lenses
This is the time of year when many photography blogs list what they consider to be the best cameras and lenses. I usually ignore this type of content. I recently looked at some of these articles and videos to see if anything has changed over the years. It hasn’t.
Capturing the Moment
This article is about capturing the moment when we’re photographing birds.
But… first off… my apologies for not posting a new article for the past couple of weeks. Time is a perishable commodity that sometimes is difficult to manage. Juggling projects… and then recently getting laid up for a quite a few days with the flu hasn’t helped.
For most of this month I’ve been focusing the bulk of my efforts on finishing a new eBook… which is finally very near completion… with an announcement imminent.
Photographing Small BIF
One of the challenges that I enjoy is photographing small BIF (birds-in-flight) in their environments, especially when amongst tree branches and other potential obstructions. Even very common birds like sparrows can take on an added dimension when capturing them in-flight in these situations.
Raptors at Mountsberg Raptor Centre
This article features some older images of raptors captured at the Mountsberg Raptor Centre about ten years ago. I’ve been culling old images from my main office system for a quite a while now. As this process continues, I periodically come across files that I had previously not fully reviewed.
So, while these images are old, they still may be of interest to readers as many of them illustrate ospreys in-flight. I had processed a few of these photographs in the past. This article also contains some newly processed in-flight images, as well as a selection of newly processed raptor portrait-style images.
Overreliance on C-AF
As photographers many of us have an overreliance on C-AF (continuous auto focus) and on occasion may sub-optimize our image capturing potential. Sometimes this happens when we lose sight of our photographic objectives, and fall into habitual ways of using our camera gear.
Close Up With Primates
Getting close up with primates is always an interesting photographic experience when visiting our local zoo. I can only imagine what the experience would be like in the wild.