I found a series of photography tutorials on Youtube with really good explanations.  ISO can be confusing for most people so lets see how to set it properly.

In most cases when you are birding, you will be walking along a trail where it isn’t always practical to bring a tripod along.  You have to be ready to move fast as birds fly overhead and grab your camera quickly.  In other words, you will be “hand-holding” your camera.  Here’s the best way to do it.

Carrying on from yesterday’s post, here is another video explaining aperture and F stops.  I’m not sure if he is still taking assignments because this video is 5 years old but his explanation is excellent.

DSLRs can be really confusing with all the controls and I still don’t really know how to use aperture and F stops so I was hunting around on Youtube and found this video which explains it very well with example shots taken at different F stops so you can see the effect on the background.  With bird shots, you usually want to background to be blurred out so the bird is clearer so you want a lower aperture.

An interesting perspective on using a Speedlite to get crisp, clear shots of birds but you do have to be pretty close to them.  Walk-in aviaries are good places to practice this technique.

In this video, Jared continues his backlighting tutorial with an even more advanced skill – editing in RAW which is something I have never attempted.

Don’t you just hate it when a bird is on the wrong side of the sun?  It happens to me all the time and I never could figure out how to deal with it.  This tutorial gives some great advice that should tide us over until we learn how to move the sun or persuade birds to fly to a more suitable perch!