There are always fantastic bird shots here and I am curious as to who uses a blind or do you just have the birds trained where you can whistle and they land on your lens? It seems many of the smaller birds are taken at a 300-500mm length which still requires that you are pretty close especially for the smaller birds. You either have to be pretty close or doing a lot of cropping. Would appreciate comments on what techniques work for you. Also, are you shooting most in your backyard or sme other favorite spot? Thanks.
SSISteve wrote:
There are always fantastic bird shots here and I am curious as to who uses a blind or do you just have the birds trained where you can whistle and they land on your lens? It seems many of the smaller birds are taken at a 300-500mm length which still requires that you are pretty close especially for the smaller birds. You either have to be pretty close or doing a lot of cropping. Would appreciate comments on what techniques work for you. Also, are you shooting most in your backyard or sme other favorite spot? Thanks.
Steve:
I do not use a blind when shooting in my yard. With a couple of days in a row, I can get within 10-feet to shoot the little birds.
I also dont use blinds. Here in midwest ducks are very skittish due to hunting. But in west coast you can get fairly close to them. Local nature center or a pond is the best place to photograph water birds. Small song birds are difficult to photograph. Sometimes I spend hrs just waiting for them to come to me.
Just my two cents.
Harsha
I agree with you Harsha, about photographing song birds. They are very curious animals, especially the males, and will almost always hop up to me to check me out not too long after I enter their territory. The close contact is half the fun for me
It seems many of the smaller birds are taken at a 300-500mm length which still requires that you are pretty close especially for the smaller birds. You either have to be pretty close or doing a lot of cropping. Would appreciate comments on what techniques work for you. Also, are you shooting most in your backyard or sme other favorite spot? Thanks.