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There are 3 popular Exposure Modes for bird photography, Aperture Priority (beginners), Shutter Priority (mid – experienced) and Manual Mode (experienced photographers).

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The secret to great bird photography (especially those in flight) is to set a low Aperture F number, coupled with the lowest ISO possible that still enables your camera to shoot at 1/1000th of a second minimum. First choose your Exposure Mode, then set (or take note of) the Aperture, Shutter Speed (most important for birds) and ISO. There are 4 basic settings to think about when shooting with a DSLR camera. Best Digital SLR Camera Settings For Bird Photography Whereas Viveza works similar to layers in Photoshop, only easier! It will allow you to selectively control light and color in your bird images. Define is useful for times when you need to increase your cameras ISO (for faster shooting), as it helps post processing grainy images.

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Personally I also enjoy using a couple of Photoshop plugins from Nik Software called Define and Viveza. I won’t go into software too much on this page as I already have a Photo Editing Software article where I list several choices for free, low cost and professional options. Software is after all the modern dark room of yesteryear. The three necessities of any great bird photographer is gear, skill and software. If you’re looking for examples of bird images taken with this lens, check out the Sigma Flickr Group. I recommend giving the Sigma a try, you won’t be disappointed in both quality and price. In comparison, the Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens and the Nikon 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D ED Autofocus VR Zoom Lens are approximately $1500 for 100mm less length than the Sigma. The price of the Sigma 150-500mm lens is only $800 USD (sourced from Amazon). Some awesome photographs being seen from cheaper brands like the Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 AF APO DG OS HSM Telephoto Zoom Lens.

It’s also important to note that the price of longer lenses are on the way down.

As you can see, any lens shorter than a 400mm will mean you’ll need to do quite a lot of cropping to fill the frame with the actual bird.

However for this example I wanted to show you the results from a 400mm focal length. Usually what I would do is crop the image so the bird fills the frame.

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For those who don’t own full frame cameras, the bird will fill the frame a little more than seen in the image below. The shot was also taken with a full frame camera. The bird is much smaller, sitting in a tree roughly 5 meters from where I was positioned. The image is cropped just slightly on both sides.īelow is another example below, again with a 400mm lens length. The bird image shown above was taken with a lens set at 400mm length, with the bird flying roughly 7 meters away from me in distance. In the very least, a 200mm lens length coupled with a 2X extender would also be sufficient. Most useful lens for bird photography is no doubt one that is 400mm or higher. With the slower models, the photographer can still use continuous shooting, however it might take a little more patience and time to get the shot they’re after.

With the two faster models, a photographer can capture more frames per second when using continuous shooting. It’s just the technique or skill required that will change depending on your camera model.įor example, a Canon 5D mark III or 7D model is faster than Canon EOS 550D, or EOS 1100D. I’m a firm believer that all cameras can take great photos. The bird image below is one of my favorites from that trip.Īny DLSR camera, low or high end will allow you to capture birds. Ah, the perfect place to spend several hours at a time photographing birds. Hundreds of birds were ducking and diving into the water to score themselves a feed of fish. I recently took a road trip where I came across a lagoon full of wildlife. Bird photography is no doubt one of the most popular genres amongst nature photographers.

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