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.
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.