Photographing Birds in Flight Photography Class (Coming Soon!)
Photographing Birds in Flight Photography Class (Coming Soon!)
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Description
Description
Timing:
This fun and informative class runs in three parts. See below for complete details.
Class Overview:
Successfully photographing birds in flight is one of the most joyful, gratifying, and challenging forms of action photography. During this fascinating 3-part workshop, longtime Looking Glass instructor Dave Strauss guides you through useful techniques, equipment selection, camera settings, light considerations and observation site selection -- the keys to capturing beautiful, accurately exposed, sharply focused images of flying birds, as well as other flying creatures like butterflies and dragonflies.
Session 1 - Approximately 1-Hour in the Looking Glass classroom
Dave will spend a highly interactive hour with a maximum of 8 participants in the Looking Glass classroom. He'll show you many examples of bad‚ and good‚ photos of flying birds and other flying creatures, explaining why the bad ones don't work and how to consistently capture the good ones. He'll cover light considerations, cameras and lenses, camera settings, sighting/framing techniques, and of course answer all your questions.
Session 2 - 1.5 hours during the morning at a close by outdoor location
Dave will meet with attendees at a close by outdoor location (not far from Looking Glass) for a field shoot. Location details will be provided upon registering for safety and security purposes; you can also email us and ask! Participants will learn from Dave and each other as they photograph many species of birds under a variety of flight conditions. Each photographer will identify a few favorite images (and perhaps a few troublesome images that raise interesting questions) for discussion during Session 3.
Session 3 - 1.5 hours in the Looking Glass classroom
The group will gather again in the Looking Glass classroom to review and learn from everyone's photos. Dave spends time on each of your submitted images, exploring your intentions and discussing which aspects of your shots are working and which could be improved.
Prerequisites:
- This workshop is best suited for intermediate photographers who use DSLRs or MILCs (mirrorless cameras) with lenses of at least 300mm. If you don't own such a lens, we recommend buying, renting or borrowing one and experimenting with it prior to the workshop. Looking Glass has numerous rental options.
- Tripods are optional but recommended. A 3-way tilt-pan or gimbal head with a quick-release is best; ball heads don't work well in this application.
- We suggest bringing spare camera batteries and a pocket notebook.
- You'll benefit from being generally familiar with these terms: aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focus, and depth-of-field. We strongly recommend reviewing your camera manual section which describes the autofocus features of your camera, or even searching for videos on YouTube that discuss this topic. You should know how to set aperture, shutter speed, and ISO to specific values on your camera even if you're not quite sure which values to use. (NOTE: Point & Shoot or bridge cameras are not well suited to this class.)
Cancellations:
Looking Glass requires 72-hour notice of cancellation for a full refund.
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