Category: Bird Photography Methods
Bear River Barn Owl, Perched And In Flight
When it’s this cold and snowy Barn Owls are flying during daytime over much of northern Utah. They’re often not easy to find but when you do locate one they can be fairly cooperative.
The Events And The Birds That Hooked Me On Bird Photography
Black-billed Magpie – An Image That May Have Taught Me Something
Western Kingbird – To Clone Or Not To Clone
“Just” A Horned Lark But I Sure Like It
Bald Eagle And Northern Harrier – A Retrospective On An Old Camera And Old Habits
It’s been a very long time since I’ve gone back and looked at some of my earliest images after I started photographing birds. I did so last night and the process was both enlightening and painful
Pied-billed Grebe – Because I Love The Light
I usually prefer to shoot in early mornings. This image demonstrates one of the reasons why.
Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk (and a question of photographic ethics)
Western Meadowlark Takeoffs – Shutter Speeds And Motion Blur
Wings of birds move fast at takeoff (and in flight) and the smaller the bird the faster they move. This means that photographers must be cognizant of shutter speed if they want any control over the amount of motion blur in their images.
A Western Sandpiper, Shutter Speeds And Another Quirk Of Reflections
Here’s another reason I like to use relatively fast shutter speeds when photographing birds..
2 Black-crowned Night Herons (and the volatility of shutter speed)
These two images demonstrate how dramatically shutter speed can change in different lighting conditions when you’re shooting in aperture priority.
What A Difference A Camera Can Make – Canon 7D vs 7D Mark II
This is only a mediocre image at best and I’ll never use it for anything other than this post but I was impressed that I was able to get it at all.
Reflections – They’re Not Quite What They Appear To Be
I believe that many folks think that when there’s a reflection of a photo subject on the surface of water that reflection is an exact upside-down version of the subject itself (unless the reflection is disturbed by irregularities on the water surface). That’s really not the case.
Blurry Wing Tips – Is It Shutter Speed Or Depth Of Field?
Bird photographers like to know why certain elements of their images are soft (blurry) when others are not because it helps them to evaluate their settings and technique.
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Bear River Barn Owl, Perched And In Flight
When it’s this cold and snowy Barn Owls are flying during daytime over much of northern Utah. They’re often not easy to find but when you do locate one they can be fairly cooperative.
The Events And The Birds That Hooked Me On Bird Photography
Black-billed Magpie – An Image That May Have Taught Me Something
Western Kingbird – To Clone Or Not To Clone
“Just” A Horned Lark But I Sure Like It
Bald Eagle And Northern Harrier – A Retrospective On An Old Camera And Old Habits
It’s been a very long time since I’ve gone back and looked at some of my earliest images after I started photographing birds. I did so last night and the process was both enlightening and painful
Pied-billed Grebe – Because I Love The Light
I usually prefer to shoot in early mornings. This image demonstrates one of the reasons why.
Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk (and a question of photographic ethics)
Western Meadowlark Takeoffs – Shutter Speeds And Motion Blur
Wings of birds move fast at takeoff (and in flight) and the smaller the bird the faster they move. This means that photographers must be cognizant of shutter speed if they want any control over the amount of motion blur in their images.
A Western Sandpiper, Shutter Speeds And Another Quirk Of Reflections
Here’s another reason I like to use relatively fast shutter speeds when photographing birds..
2 Black-crowned Night Herons (and the volatility of shutter speed)
These two images demonstrate how dramatically shutter speed can change in different lighting conditions when you’re shooting in aperture priority.
What A Difference A Camera Can Make – Canon 7D vs 7D Mark II
This is only a mediocre image at best and I’ll never use it for anything other than this post but I was impressed that I was able to get it at all.
Reflections – They’re Not Quite What They Appear To Be
I believe that many folks think that when there’s a reflection of a photo subject on the surface of water that reflection is an exact upside-down version of the subject itself (unless the reflection is disturbed by irregularities on the water surface). That’s really not the case.
Blurry Wing Tips – Is It Shutter Speed Or Depth Of Field?
Bird photographers like to know why certain elements of their images are soft (blurry) when others are not because it helps them to evaluate their settings and technique.