The Beginner's Guide to Photographing Birds by Rosl Rössner

Author:Rosl Rössner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rocky Nook

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White-throated dipper | Germany | Due to an extremely slow shutter speed of 1/8 s, the water became very blurry, while the dipper is still sufficiently sharp since it barely moved. | 840mm (600mm + 1.4x converter), aperture 5.6, 1/8 s, ISO 200

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Black-headed gulls | Wales | The soaring colony of black-headed gulls has a pronounced motion blur; coupled with the blue hour mood it makes the image quite poetic. | 500mm, aperture 5.0, 1/25 s, ISO 1250

A second way to intentionally bring blur into a picture is called panning. You do this to keep the bird sharp while blurring the background. This is achieved by using a relatively slow shutter speed and following the flying bird with the camera. Again, you’ll produce a lot of pictures that are only worth deleting. But if just one turns out really well, it’ll enrich your portfolio!

Intentional blurring also affects the background and foreground of a photo, of course. It’s a matter of taste how much blur a viewer enjoys. Especially if there’s more than one bird in the picture, it can bother some people if not all are in focus. Personally, I like playing around with sharpness and blur.

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