Do nature & wildlife photographers tend to photograph & post "Birds" more than anything else? Is this do to availability / proximity, or are you a "Bird Photographer? I ask as it seems to me that 90%. or more, of the post here are birds. There is nothing wrong with this, I am just interested. Thanks, Jim
I happen to be like a GBH, taking shots of whatever passes by. But, I believe your comments are correct. What do most town and city dwellers see most often see in the city or on excursions outside of the city? Birds, plants, bugs. Those would be most common. In my city (and environs), mountain goats, whales, wolves, bears, and the like, tend to make themselves scarce.
KCollett wrote:
I happen to be like a GBH, taking shots of whatever passes by. But, I believe your comments are correct. What do most town and city dwellers see most often see in the city or on excursions outside of the city? Birds, plants, bugs. Those would be most common. In my city (and environs), mountain goats, whales, wolves, bears, and the like, tend to make themselves scarce.
Thanks Ken. I thought this might be the situation. Jim
It is a matter of that is what is here . Don't really consider myself a true birder. I do however love being out and seeing what shows up to photograph, birds, bugs, reptiles, flowers
birdied wrote:
It is a matter of that is what is here . Don't really consider myself a true birder. I do however love being out and seeing what shows up to photograph, birds, bugs, reptiles, flowers
yeah, if we had elephants running around in boston, i'd be all over them! birds are also some of if not the most challenging subjects to capture and capture well. so, this degree of difficulty also adds to the fun for many.
dorian wrote:
yeah, if we had elephants running around in boston, i'd be all over them! birds are also some of if not the most challenging subjects to capture and capture well. so, this degree of difficulty also adds to the fun for many.
I am not a bird photograoher so I will take your word for how difficult they are to shoot. I tried it once, or twice, and I suck. I will add that with the number of excellent images posted some might believe it is easy, but it is not. Thank you, Jim
oldrattler wrote:
I am not a bird photograoher so I will take your word for how difficult they are to shoot. I tried it once, or twice, and I suck. I will add that with the number of excellent images posted some might believe it is easy, but it is not. Thank you, Jim
I think Ted Wiliams said the hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round ball with a round bat.
I imagine the hardest thing to photograph well in wildlife is to photograph a moving bird. They are small, move quickly, and can have fine feather detail. What can be more difficult than that?
So Dorian is right, as well as everyone else ... Why do people climb mountains? Because they are there.
acjd wrote:
I think Ted Wiliams said the hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round ball with a round bat.
I imagine the hardest thing to photograph well in wildlife is to photograph a moving bird. They are small, move quickly, and can have fine feather detail. What can be more difficult than that?
So Dorian is right, as well as everyone else ... Why do people climb mountains? Because they are there.
I don't especially like birds but they're plentiful, and I don't dislike them either. Plus they're easy to photograph, and you get some fun variety from kinglets to eagles. But I'll take a fox or a deer over most birds. I don't have much of an emotional relationship with birds, so my photographs of them - though pretty - rarely grab me the way my images of mammals do. Birds I do like shooting are herons, hawks, and corvids (not many of those where I live.) Oh, and shorebirds can be pretty cool too.
This spring two breeding pairs of great horned owls really cleaned out small mammals from the (small) John Heinz NWR in Philadelphia where I spend a lot of time because it's close to home & work, tilting things ever further toward birds. In practice, I guess, I end up shooting whatever shows up.
I'm pretty much along the same lines with many...birds are the most easily available animals, but aside from raptors it's not my real interest but makes for good practice and I enjoy being outdoors. There are also some things I "have" to take pictures of and being outdoors is a good break from that.
I'm not a bird photographer so I can't speak for those who shoot birds. But I think its cause they are so darn difficult to shoot and get right, and also more easily seen than most mammals and bugs.
But I think its cause they are so darn difficult to shoot and get right, and also more easily seen than most mammals and bugs.