Bright Sunny Day Ideal For Bird Photography

This is one of the first digital bird photographs I have produced, using a long lens, a sturdy tripod and a lot of patience I was fortunate that the sun was shining and the birds were hungry and I was able to photograph this beautiful female Chaffinch as she ate.

The First Photograph With New Camera

This is the very first photograph I took with my new camera, the Canon 450D digital SLR. I couldn't wait to use it and so pointed it at the first thing that looked interesting and took a few pictures. Until now all the images you see on this blog have been taken on film with a manual SLR camera but from now on there will be a mixture of film and digital images.

Blue Tit Bird Photography

One of my favourtire, and one of the smallest birds that I have photogrpahed, is the Blue Tit, and let me start by saying that this is not easy. Blue Tits ar even faster the the other birds I have photographed so far and the do not sit still for long so when this little fella settled on the bird feeder I grabbed the chance to snap him and managed to capture about five frames before he flew off, and here are the results.

Male Chaffinch In Flight At Feeding Station

This is one of the few shots I have taken so far of a very small bird in flight, they are so fast that it is very difficult to capture them and as you can see even in this image the male Chaffinches wings are blurred, although I do like the effect it creates. Once he had landed I only had time to take one other shot before he flew off and luckily I was fast enough to get him stationary on the feeder looking very bright red even on this slightly overcast day.

Using Reflections To Create Abstraction

I took this shot whilst I was patiently waiting for some birds to appear in the garden, a task that can take a very long time so it's only natural that your eye wanders while you wait. The sun was shining brightly and out the corner of my eye I noticed a splash of red and when I looked round it turned out to be the reflection of a rose bush in the window. It was swaying in the breeze and because it already looked distorted and abstract I decided to allow the motion to be captured and set a slightly slower shutter speed. I like that it isn't necessarily obvious what the subject is and that the bright natural colours really stand out in the sunlight.