NatureNotions » Hungary http://www.naturenotions.ch Photography by Peter Kes Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:01:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Different Technique http://www.naturenotions.ch/different-technique http://www.naturenotions.ch/different-technique#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:10:25 +0000 master http://www.naturenotions.ch/?p=792 The trip to Hungary concentrated around hide visits, as mentioned in my first Hungary post. The hides are all in ‘ideal’ light positions, but the light conditions are not always predictable. The forest water station was located in a stream of light, occasionally blocked by the waiving trees.

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The trip to Hungary concentrated around hide visits, as mentioned in my first Hungary post. The hides are all in ‘ideal’ light positions, but the light conditions are not always predictable. The forest water station was located in a stream of light, occasionally blocked by the waiving trees.

So, where I normally set my camera to manual mode, if light conditions are constant, here I tried a different setting. Since activity at the water station was quite frantic, with birds chasing eachother away and birds doing their bathing and getting out asap, I opted for a minimum shutterspeed value of 1/1000 (in shutter priority mode), exposure compensation at 0 and auto-ISO: so where light changed, the ISO would be set up if there was not enough light and ISO would drop where there was too much light. To enable the Auto-ISO, just press the ISO button on top of a (Canon) body and dial until the display reads ‘A’, for auto.

With the camera I was working with I knew that if light would drop, my noise could become problematique, but this image was much to my delight:

Hawfinch (en), Appelvink (nl), Kernbeisser (de)
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Canon 50d, 1/1000 @ f/4 @ ISO400

See also: http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=65845 for reviews of this image.

]]> http://www.naturenotions.ch/different-technique/feed 0 Hide Photography http://www.naturenotions.ch/hide-photography http://www.naturenotions.ch/hide-photography#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:23:54 +0000 master http://www.naturenotions.ch/?p=780 Early May I joined a photographic tour in Hungary (organised by Robert O’Toole, http://www.robertotoole.com/). The main attraction of this tour was the usage of hides. Bence Máté (http://www.hidephotography.com/), the owner of the farm we went to, has specialised in building hides at strategic positions, to get up close and personal with birds you normally never [...]]]> Early May I joined a photographic tour in Hungary (organised by Robert O’Toole, http://www.robertotoole.com/). The main attraction of this tour was the usage of hides. Bence Máté (http://www.hidephotography.com/), the owner of the farm we went to, has specialised in building hides at strategic positions, to get up close and personal with birds you normally never get close to. The next image gives a good impression on how the view on the bird actions is setup. A dug-in hide, with a glass window (grey, one way viewing glass, with a 1.33 stop light reduction), making sure that the birds can hardly see you and that the noise of the camera is largely reduced to background noise. The great advantage of the hide is of course the close proximity to the birds, but the glass does create quite a distortion if images are taking with an angle through the glass.

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I was amazed at the amount of birds actually present in a forrest and saw birds and bird interactions I had only dreamt of seeing so far. One of the frequent visitors was this European Goldfinch. A beautifully colored bird.

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Image created with a Canon 50d and 400mmDO lens at 1/800 @ f/4.5 @ ISO400

I will submit a lot more posts from this trip, so keep looking.

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