Backyard Bird Photography

Step 12 In Conclusion

There is so much more to discuss here. I am probably wrong about a few facts too. Feel free to ask questions, correct my mistakes and add your own tips.

Patience is a huge factor here too. Keep at it until you know everything about both the birds and your camera. The skills you develop here will certainly affect all of your photography in a postive way.

Thanks for reading all the way to the end!

Comments

[mirrorclick]

This patience, how much does it cost and where can I find it?

joke...

I'll be sure to try this out when spring finally hits, still got tempertatures of -30C something depending on which week :(

[Silence]

I tried this with Humming birds on my old Olympus E-410 a while back. I figured it would be good practice and cool to catch them in action. I soon learned that i had to use auto focus and freehand the camera to even have a chance at catching them. I was shooting from indoors, we had a feeder on a large window, so I could get pretty close before they got spooked by my movement but the lighting wasn't so great.
Some of my favorite bird shots with my E-410

[ballitin]

Thanks for taking the time to go through it step by step ,being new to wildlife photography you have answered alot of my questions .thanks keep up the good work

J

[unklstuart]

Thanks for commenting and good luck with the photography. I scored another decent owl picture the other day.

[your dog]

nice wink! hahaha thats cool