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As digital photography equipment, notably digital SLR cameras and digiscopes, become increasingly affordable, more and more birdwatchers are turning their hands to capturing images of their favorite subject. But having the equipment is only half the battle to achieving stunning bird images. A good knowledge of your equipment, an understanding of both photography and field craft, and a firm basis in post-production techniques are also essential if you want to capture and create high-quality bird photographs. All these topics are covered in this portable guide to bird photography. Although small enough to fit in a jacket pocket or camera bag, the Bird Watcher’s Photography Field Guide introduces and instructs on each stage of the digital photography process, describing all the necessary equipment, discussing specialist field-craft techniques, and showing you how to manipulate and enhance your photos.
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This beautifully illustrated, inspirational guide to bird photography is packed with practical advice for how to photograph birds presented in an informative but accessible writing style. Creative Bird Photography offers a fresh approach to its subject, looking closely at how to photograph specific aspects of birds’ lives, such as eating and drinking, courtship, and flight. The author gives examples, demonstrating particular points and approaches for taking great shots of all of these daily bird activities as well as taking “mood” photographs at dawn and dusk. Each shot is accompanied by detailed technical data, information about locations, and advice about other challenges that will need to be surmounted in order to achieve the perfect shot. Coster also shares fascinating anecdotes about his encounters with the birds featured. There are also up-to-date sections on bird photography basics, including equipment and storage of digital images.
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2 Day only sale on the Lonely Planet website. $10 gets you the FULL version of the book not just the chapters! Eco-friendly way to carry around travel information from the king of budget travel guides. Although for birding field guides I prefer a real book, for travel information I much prefer PDFs in my laptop with maybe just a few maps printed out to carry around while walking. Check the publishing schedule, some books won’t be updated until 2015 or 2016. If you are an advance planner, you can buy the books now and just keep up to date with prices online. Please note this in not an affiliate link, I’ve been using Lonely Planet since the 80’s and love the products!
Here’s some suggestions for guidebooks to help you get the most from your trip to Puerto Rico. If you click through to the Amazon page, you will see reader reviews and also other suggestions for similar books. They come in both Kindle and Paper versions. Please note that these are my affiliate links and you do not pay any more using my links than if you went direct to Amazon. Thank you for your support!
Here’s some suggestions for guidebooks to help you get the most from your trip to Indonesia. If you click through to the Amazon page, you will see reader reviews and also other suggestions for similar books. They come in both Kindle and Paper versions. Please note that these are my affiliate links and you do not pay any more using my links than if you went direct to Amazon. Thank you for your support!
Here’s some suggestions for guidebooks to help you get the most from your trip to Peru. If you click through to the Amazon page, you will see reader reviews and also other suggestions for similar books. They come in both Kindle and Paper versions. Please note that these are my affiliate links and you do not pay any more using my links than if you went direct to Amazon. Thank you for your support!
These are fifty places chosen by birding experts around the world. Follow the link in the image to see the table of contents. Do you agree with their choices? I’m a bit surprised to see so many places in the USA on the list. Only 20 are not in the USA. And how did they manage to leave off the Pantanal in Brazil, Indonesia’s Arfak, Raja Ampat and Seram, India’s Bharatpur and Thattekad, Costa Rica’s Carara and La Selva, The Philippines………….just so many places! And only one entry is supposed to cover all of Peru and Brazil’s Amazonia? I think they should expand the book to 100 Places to Go Birding Before You Die and add these ones on!
The first thing you need to start your eco-adventure is the right destination. Since I especially want to see parrots in the wild, I need to know where they naturally occur. Most wild parrots will be in South America, Central America, Australia, Africa and Asia. They like warmer climates. You do see wild parrots in North America and Europe but these are generally escaped pet birds who somehow found each other and formed a flock.
So let’s say you have a Scarlet Macaw at home and you want to see his wild cousins. You have a lot of options, they can be seen in Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica and other countries in this area. I use a variety of resources to locate a parrot species. There is an excellent guide book called “Parrots of the World” by Joseph M. Forshaw which has maps and names localities you can use to plan a trip. Amazon.com has a Kindle version, but in the field where electricity may be limited or non-existant, you really need the actual book. Take a look at the sample pages and get familiar with the layout. Use the “search inside this book” function and type in “Scarlet Macaw”. It will show you a preview of page 178 which has the map of where this species is found. You will also find in the text the names of some of the places you can specifically visit in the localities section.
Does anyone have any specific birds they either have at home or would just like to see in the wild? Tell me in the comments!