In every style of photography, it seems a lesson that should be learned to get good photos more easily. For example, portrait photographers often talk about developing a synergy with their subjects, and from your experience with the portrait, I think it is true. But what about bird photography? I think there should be a lesson here: Every bird has a secret.
what is the secret?
Secretly, I mean something about the behavior of a species that may not be immediately clear, but once known, it becomes very easy to capture the photo of that species. Let’s take an easy example: Red-winged blackbirds! Now, if you asked me to go out and to take a picture of a red -wing blackbird, can I do it? Yes I could. But is it good? Well, maybe not! This is because red-winged blackbirds are now shy. They live in the background, beware of paying too much attention to themselves in this time of the year.
On the other hand, in spring, especially in the end of April to May, they are aggressively defined and sing on any long reed they can find, not taking care of in a way or another whether you are sitting nearby. This is their secret! In spring, I can take dozens of decent pictures of red winged blackbirds and have a high probability of success. Now? I will not trust this.
Sometimes, this is true, you can be lucky and just get a “shot” without knowing a lot about a bird. But if I look at my favorite photos, all of them came from stumbling on the mystery of that bird. This was the truth of Bat Falcon in the Atlantic forest in Brazil. Its mystery was relatively simple: it has a strong priority for a tree. Fortunately, people working in the local ecological reserve told me that one. Could I find the bird elsewhere? Perhaps this is the case, because it hunts around the region, but the possibility was very bad.
Anyway, how can you discover the secret of a bird? The first thing that comes to mind is … residence! Even very common birds have housing that they like on others. Take Gulal. Everyone has seen a gulp. But a few years ago I came to know that they have a special preference for the almanac ponds of meltwater on the beaches. Although you can get a picture of a gulp almost anywhere, I was waiting for these ponds near the sunset to catch the bird with golden light.
Also, when I talk about the habitat, I am not just talking about thick houses such as “grasslands” or “dense forest”. Birds develop persistent priorities for one Part One place on each other, even if for our eyes, the habitat all looks much more similar. And it brings me to my most recent encounter: rather difficult sapling sparrows.
Actually, I first saw Savana Sparrow about four years ago, but I never got a good shot of it. In recent months, however, I have been noticeing a large number of them in the park. In fact, I can present four or five almost every time.
My hopes of capturing a good picture of Sawan Sparrow started increasing, but still, I felt that I had not discovered the secret of this bird. what was it? The location and residence looked perfect, but the birds kept flying and descending into the tangled areas, which led to highly busy photos. But then, I saw something.
In some parts of the open grassland, the savanna sparrow preferred to land on the top of Theles and other small plants, rapidly going from one thistle to another. Maybe it was his secret – I could take his picture if I slowly contact these thongs, and looked small myself, and the bird was waiting for the bird to get down.
Therefore, I used a technique that often works when the birds reach near the ground: walking on your knees to keep your profile low. True, the ground was wet and soaking. And what about mosquitoes? It was just raining, and a huge herd was hunting me as if I was hunting my sparrow. Doesn’t matter. I started walking towards Thestals in dirt on my knees, soaked. But … birds did not notice me. So, I mentally said to myself, “I am now being cut almost twenty times” and started shooting.
This is enough to say, I found the first picture of a Sawan Sparrow that I like. Not only this, but I again proved that it is a good thing to be covered in the mud.
conclusion
When you start bird photography, you can think that it is all the same – birds descend on things or fly around, and when you see them you press the shutter. But in fact, a large part of bird photography is actually knowing each species. If you are not receiving the types of post -bird shots, it can just be that you have not found the secret of it yet. So go there, and find out what the bird is hiding! (Hopefully, without receiving a little bit by many mosquitoes.)
