Birds as Subjects: Maximizing Field Success

Module 1: Fieldcraft, Locations and Artistic Approaches

We go from Art to Zen, with stops along the way for the underlying logic of Composition, Action, and Light, alongside the practical realities of Sites, Tactics, and Behaviors. This information is useful whether you are a photographer learning birding or a birder learning photography.

In this session, we focus on the "why" of bird photography, the fieldcraft and artistic intentions that will raise your success rate out in the wild. The other modules cover camera settings or editing sliders.

Many of these techniques will work for wildlife and street photography as well as birds, because these genres share subjects who won't take instructions. You usually hope they will ignore you and act naturally.

Video Chapters:

• 0:00:00 — Introduction

• 0:00:58 — Typical Shoots at Five Favorite Spots

• 0:13:05 — Why Bird Photography is Different

• 0:26:42 — Shooting with Respect for the Birds

• 0:31:13 — Start at Home with Tips on Feeders

• 0:38:15 — Compose Birds as They Move = Set Priorities

• 0:52:25 — How to Work with the Light You Have

• 0:58:35 — Ways to Execute Different Artistic Styles

• 1:11:24 — Apps, Websites, and Books – eBird and more

• 1:18:05 — Wrap-up

Each module stands on its own and can be watched in any order. This video ticket will include a 30% discount code to use for the other two bird photography modules.