BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY. Getting down to basics
Bird photographers fall into roughly two groups; (a) those that are close to bird-watchers in their thinking in that they want to get good shots of many different species of birds. Like bird-watchers they use such terminology as ‘lifers’ to refer to a first time experience in seeing or photographing birds. (b) The other type of bird photographers are those that are more aligned to photographic perfection rather than recording a number of different species. I am a type (b) bird photographer. I am likely to work a promising situation for hours and days to get that WOW shot. The two shooting styles of course overlap. I am a wildlife photographer and shoot birds because they are more available where I live than herds of Wildebeest crossing crocodile-infested rivers. An example of a detailed portrait An prototype action shot Equipment I will not mince words here. If you are serious about bird photography you need the following; (I am of course not allowi