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Photographing Birds in Flight

15/05/2018 Martin Birds, Birds in flight, Botswana, Camera gear, Photo Tips, Photography, Travel, Wildlife

Photographing Birds in Flight Pied Kingfisher, Chobe River. 1/1250, f8, ISO 320. Nikkor 300mm lens + 1.4x tc The thing about birds is that they rarely sit still just to make it easy for you to photograph them. Sometimes you’re lucky and they’ll stay put long enough, but more often then not they will take to the air as[…]

Fabulous Farne Islands – Open Air Classroom

28/06/2017 Martin Birds, Birds in flight, Camera gear, Photo Tips, Photography, Wildlife

Farne Islands, open air classroom There is no doubt that the more you practice something the better at it you become. This is as true for wildlife photography as it is for anything else. It is very common for people to spend the first few hours in Africa just ‘getting their eye in’; familiarising themselves with the way animals move[…]