What are the entry skills of bird shooting?

After being familiar with taking still photos, such as landscapes and portraits, students may also want to challenge to take photos of some wild animals, among which taking pictures of birds is one of the animals that are easier to find. However, this photographic subject also needs certain equipment and shooting skills. The following are my carefully recommended photography skills for shooting birds, hoping to help you.

Bird-hunting tips 1. Shooting in direct sunlight: There are two reasons why you should shoot in direct sunlight: first, you can use a higher shutter speed, and second, sunlight can provide uniform light for birds. A faster shutter helps to capture the moment of birds, while even light can help you avoid heavy shadows to hide the details of feathers.

2. Wait patiently for the birds to fly away: if they get too close, the birds will fly away soon. So don't take the initiative to approach, wait for the birds to fly. If you have enough patience, you will often have the opportunity to meet and get close to yourself? As long as birds think there is no threat.

3. Use a car as a cover: Using a cover is a good way to get close to birds, and a car is one of the best covers. When driving up a path or entering a scenic spot, put the camera at your fingertips. Once you see a shooting opportunity, just roll down the window and you can shoot. Most birds are not afraid to fly around the car.

4. Use continuous shooting: To capture the moment when birds fly, you need to use the continuous shooting model to ensure it? Catch? Take a nice picture. Make sure that the camera is set to continuous shooting mode and the memory card has enough capacity before going out.

5. Focus on the eyes: When viewers look at photos, they will first see the eyes of birds, so they must focus on their eyes and make sharp images. To do this, don't use autofocus, it's better to use central focus more.

6. Avoid sudden movements: Animals are very sensitive to movements, so don't make sudden movements to avoid scaring birds. Even slow and calm movements are often disturbed, so the best choice is to stay still and wait for the birds to fly.

7. Use the correct autofocus range: Many telephoto lenses can switch the autofocus range to reduce unnecessary focusing time. When shooting birds, you will generally choose a farther range, which will help to further reduce the focus time and avoid missing the best shooting opportunity.

8. Always be prepared for shooting: Sometimes the best shooting opportunity appears inadvertently, so be sure to be prepared for shooting at all times. When you come to the wild, make sure that the telephoto lens is installed on the fuselage and all settings are correct (such as aperture, ISO sensitivity, etc.). In this way, even if a bird suddenly lands in front of you, you can start shooting at once.

Note (1) Always use a telephoto lens.

Birds often fly in the sky, eat in the water, or rest in trees. To take a big and clear picture, you need a telephoto lens of 300mm, 400mm or even 800 mm. Students can start with some cheap 300mm telephoto zoom lenses (high-quality telephoto lenses are generally more expensive, but the imaging is excellent). Add a teleporter of x 1.4 or x2, and you will have a telephoto close to 600mm, but note that the maximum aperture will be reduced accordingly after adding the teleporter.

Beginners can shoot birds from cheap telephoto lenses and extended-range lenses.

(2) Don't turn the aperture to the maximum.

Although taking a shallow depth of field with a large aperture can blur the background, it is easy to make the depth of field shallow under a long focus (refer to the teaching of taking a shallow depth of field), and birds will move, so too shallow depth of field is easy to blur the subject. Therefore, f/5.6-8 aperture should be used when shooting birds to keep the depth of field within a reasonable range and highlight the subject.

(3) the shutter should be fast

In order to determine the shutter speed to be maintained according to the action of the bird to be photographed, a relatively fast shutter speed is usually used. For birds, it is relatively calm to capture their movements clearly at 1/800s or above. When birds are resting, it is best to keep the lowest shutter speed of 1/250s (if using telephoto, remember to meet the "safety shutter" to avoid hand shock.

(d) Don't be afraid to use high ISO.

In the second and third points, we know that the aperture should not be too large and the shutter should be fast, so in order to get the correct exposure of birds, we need to improve ISO! Using high ISO in broad daylight will not obviously affect the photo quality, and now the denoising function of camera built-in or post-production software is also very mature, so don't be afraid to use high ISO! Adjust the appropriate ISO value according to the ambient light at that time. ISO800, 1600, etc. Enough for you to use a high-speed shutter!

Practical method 1. Natural light method

Direct sunlight and macro lens can create a picture of a cardinals eating lunch.

Meyer, a freelance photographer, waited patiently at the shooting point he chose, took photos in the afternoon sun, and after several efforts, he took satisfactory photos. He said that the most difficult thing is to stay still and wait for the bird to enter the focus. Because birds are used to people, Meyer can reach within three feet. You can build a simple shelter in the yard, or use houses or trees to hide you and your equipment, or you can shoot birds so close. You might as well attract the birds you need to shoot with the right food. Nikon EL camera, 105mm/f4 macro Nicole lens,1125 seconds, f/8 aperture, Kodak Rom64, manual TTL metering.

Second, a simple hand-held flash system.

Light up the open mouths of a group of hungry birds waiting for feeding with a flashlight, and look at these domestic wrens that have just hatched for six days with their mother's eyes. William? Griffin didn't resort to subtle concealment. He went down to the basement and left the ladder. Griffin has been photographing the nests of adult resident birds for several years. This time, he decided to take a series of photos from the eggs of the birds about to hatch. He waited for two adult birds to feed, then climbed up the ladder, quickly uncovered the bird's nest, pointed the camera down at the mouth of the bird's nest, put it in front of the camera with Vitta 180 electronic flash (half power turned on) to avoid blocking the light around the bird's nest, and quickly took several pictures before covering the bird's nest. Griffin's close-up system consists of a camera, a leather cavity, a lens and a small flash. If the flash is always kept close to the lens, the exposure can be kept constant in a large magnification range from 5X to 2x. Use rubber eyewear cups to block stray light to help focus. Leather cavity equipped with 135mmf/4 lens,1/45s, aperture f/22, Kodak Rom64, exposed by experience.

Third, natural light and warm color filter.

Natural light and warm color filters can add color to the silhouette at dawn. Sang Ya. Blathy combined her knowledge of birds with her perseverance to complete this elegant work with oriental full-tone characteristics. ? Birds are most active in the early morning of a day. She said,? Unfortunately, however, all kinds of interference are also the most obvious. I spent a lot of time carefully observing this heron fishing. It looks like dancing. ?