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In part 1 of this series, I covered a lot of things to do in-camera and when out there shooting.
In part 2, I go into some tips that are a little more broad and involve larger shifts in activity, thought process, etc. Just like the tips I listed in the prior installment, these took me years to develop or realize.
Let’s dive in!
There are a LOT of articles out there regarding bird and wildlife photography that are very gear heavy – buy this lens, get this camera body, you need this gimble, etc, etc. While I am the first one to admit that great equipment helps make great images, I’ve found that gear is only a portion of the equation that is getting great bird images.
Assuming that you are reading this because you already have some sort of gear to photograph birds and the desire to get better, there are things you can do to improve your images before you plunk down thousands of hard-earned dollars on more equipment.
This is part one of two in this series. I originally intended this to be one post but then it just became way too long! And the info is hard-learned for me, so I had to find a way to make it digestible in two posts versus cutting out stuff. Where possible I have images to illustrate my points. In this first part I cover the things to do while you are shooting in regard to composition, action, and time of day.
Let’s get started.
I own a few odd-ball prime lenses that hover around the 50mm-ish lens length, and offer some unique bokeh, making them interesting choices for portrait photography. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term “bokeh”, its the out of focus area in the image, or rather the quality or look there-of. For many this is very subjective – one person’s AWESOME bokeh is another’s busy, fussy background.
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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