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A day for the birds.



It was a fine sunny winter’s day, 17 C0. Yes! That’s a fine winter’s day here in Tasmania/Australia although 03/June is only the third day of winter; it doesn’t get better than that. I had some spare time on my hand and decided to go to a small lake at the outskirts of town Bird shooting, action Herons are action Heroes! It seems to be the ‘IN thing’ to shoot a Heron eating a fish, so there was my self-imposed brief.

I set the Nikon D300 up as… Continue

Bird Watching Tutorial

By Francois Cleroux - Canada

Helmut Samerski - Australia

A Foreword

This tutorial was prompted by a post from Francois in which he listed valuable points about photographing birds under the title ‘Bird Photography Tips’.

Francois listed 17 suggestions, ranging from camera settings to dos and don’ts of bird photography.

Francois has kindly allowed me to be an administrator of the bird group and he has invited all of… Continue

Actually I was trying to photo-shoot some garden birds through the kitchen window when I saw something ever-so-small moving on a place mat.

I had to put my glasses on to see what it was. It was 'Atom' the Ant carrying a crump of food in its nippers.

‘Atom’ was only 3mm long, the blue line on the place mat is 2mm wide.

So the challenge was on, could I or could I not get this ant- while it… Continue

I did not have a tripod with me when I went trout fishing yesterday but coming home to the boat ramp, the last boat came to shore as the sky presented itself in beautiful colour. I put my Nikon D300 on a solid tree stump base but hand held it.

This picture was taken in 'P' mode at F4.5 @ 1/2 sec ISO 200 FL 42mm with my Nikon D300.

I thought the VR II is worth having. VR II => Nikon's description for Vibration Reduction 2nd… Continue