A Day In The Life Of A Bird Photographer
Month: March 2019
Four Things Every Photographer Can Do To Improve Their Photography And They Are All Free!
The old saying goes; “A picture is worth 1000 words.” If that’s true, what words are your picture saying?
And if you think of your picture as a “story,” something I strongly advocate regularly, it might help to PRE-construct the story and THEN get the picture.
Move along from one thing to the next, learning what you can. Don’t concentrate on what you DON’T know. Concentrate on what you DO know. If you look only at the negative – well that would be like the guy picking up coconuts spending his day counting how many he has left to pick up. It’s much more productive (and satisfying) to say “Wow – look how many coconuts (pearls of knowledge) I’ve gathered!”
I’ve got a new post over at Olympus.com called “Bird Photos on a Budget.” I spent a few days testing an entry-level, Micro Four Thirds system from Olympus just to see how well these lower-priced cameras can perform. The answer is – I was shocked. Read Bird Photography on a Budget at the Olympus Learning Center.
There are three big reasons I watermark my images.
The first is simple. In the event of infringement (i.e., someone commercially uses my photo without compensating me) I can use the watermark to prove that the infringement was knowingly done.
I found a new podcast player called Himalaya. It’s a clean, easy, effective way to find, organize and […]
As a birder and bird photographer, a good pair of binoculars is an important part of my kit. I almost always have a pair in the car or in my bag. I use binoculars to spot and identify birds. Then I move to that location to start making photographs.
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