5 Simple Beginner Tips on Bird Photography

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5 simple beginner tips on bird photography
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INTRO
Always remember that you dont need expensive
camera lenses to take extraordinary photographs
of fowls. What you need is technique, and then
even your smart phone camera would suffice in
several circumstances. Well go through a few
simple tips that should benefit you immensely.
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Contributing Factors
- Direction quality of light -
Composition - Background - Proper settings -
Exposure - Position of the photographer
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Tip 1 Everythings in the eye
Birds look lively when theres light in their
eyes. Follow these guidelines - Keep the birds
eyes in sharp focus. - Check for the catch
light (in birds eyes). - Photograph from
birds eye level.
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Tip 2 Fill the frame
While taking individual photographs of birds,
filling the frame is a definite good practice.
The advantages of this practice are - Its easy
to focus on the bird. - Its easy to properly
expose the bird.
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Tip 3 Capture birds in action

• Capturing birds in action requires more patience
  and effort. These might come in handy
• Early morning or late afternoons the apt time to
  capture these photographs.
• Use burst shot mode.
• Observe them closely and learn to anticipate.

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Tip 4 Make the background do the talking

• The background plays a significant role in bird
  photography (except in extreme-close up
  photographs). Here are a few guidelines
• Avoid taking the photograph if the backgrounds
  immensely distracting.
• Use maximum aperture values to incorporate the
  slightly out-of- focus effect.

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Tip 5 Practice with common birds
Birds like wildfowl, ducks, geese, herons are
quite common slow and easy to photograph. They
are also quite photogenic at the same time.
Practice with them first. You can then slowly and
steadily move on to more ambitious adventures.
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