{"id":292,"date":"2012-01-22T02:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T02:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2018-04-06T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:05:22","slug":"backyard-bird-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/backyard-bird-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Bird Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2011,\u00a0 wildlife photographer Jeff Wendoff told me that I must add wildlife to my photography portfolio.\u00a0 Got some tips on basic backyard bird photography from Jeff and photographer David Middleton.\u00a0 The wheels of my progress may move slowly, but they do move.<\/p>\n

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By end of 2011, I had prepared a place to hang bird feeders within clear view of my home windows and I hung my first bird feeder. Within two weeks, the birds began to find the new feeders.\u00a0 However, having created natural perches for the birds in precise locations where I wanted them to land,\u00a0 they were not perching here.<\/p>\n

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\nA few days ago, I saw the birds begin to perch in the places I had prepared.\u00a0 When I awoke this morning, there were many birds and they were perching in the right locations.\u00a0 So I photographed backyard birds for the first time.\u00a0 It just so happened that snow was falling, which added an extra special touch of beauty.<\/p>\n

Sitting next to a window and photographing from the comfort of my home, these birds are perhaps 35-ft away. I found that my telephoto lens did not have quite enough reach.\u00a0 The birds appear quite small in the original images; so the photos attached here are cropped about 50% from original size.<\/p>\n

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I used a class of camera known as Micro Four-Thirds (MFT) with a 45-200mm lens at maximum telephoto (200mm).\u00a0 If I had used my Full-Frame DSLR, I would have needed a 400mm lens to capture the same field of view.\u00a0 That’s because the image sensor on any MFT camera is 1\/2 the size of Full-Frame\u00a0 (for you Nikonians out there, that means “FX” format).\u00a0 To get a tighter shot, I will need big glass.<\/p>\n

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In 2011,\u00a0 wildlife photographer Jeff Wendoff told me that I must add wildlife to my photography portfolio.\u00a0 Got some tips on basic backyard bird photography from Jeff and photographer David Middleton.\u00a0 The wheels of my progress may move slowly, but they do move. ( Click on any image to see a larger view ) By […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,31,86],"tags":[48,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-seasonal","category-wildlifephotography","tag-backyard","tag-bird","tag-wildlife","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}