Love wildlife? Here are 5 tips to improve your shots.

Five Tips to Help Improve your Wildlife Photography.

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1. Shoot from the eye level of your subject (or slightly lower). The difference is remarkable when compared to just standing and shooting down on your subject. Shooting shorebirds? Take a towel or canvas sheet with you and lay down on the sand to shoot. Try the different angles next time you're out in the field and you will soon notice the difference.

Get down at eye level


2. Focus on the eye. Make sure you get those eyes in focus or your image will surely fail. It is just that simple. The eyes must be tack sharp and if they are, you are halfway to a great shot.

Focus on the eyes 


3. Blur out your background. Shoot "wide open", i.e. use a large aperture, say, f/2.8 to f/5.6 depending on your lens of course. This will eliminate distractions in the background and allow all of your viewer's attention to be directed to your subject. Nice soft bokeh (background blur) can make or break a good photo. The added advantage to shooting with a wide open aperture is that, automatically, your shutter speed will be faster. Faster shutter speed equals less chance of a blurred image due to movement or camera shake especially when using a longer focal length lens.

Shoot wide open and blur the background.

4. Watch your composition. Leave space in the direction the animal or bird is facing or leaning towards. Reduce the space at the subject's back.

Leave space in front of your subject

5. Choose your background carefully when composing your shot. You can't always do this with moving subjects as you may just have to grab the moment, but if you do have time, study your background. Moving a small distance may mean the difference between having a stick growing out of your subject's head or not. It is easy to get carried away with the excitement of the moment but that small change of position could be the difference between a good shot and an award winner.

Watch your background

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Flinders Ranges 2019 is already sold out but there's plenty more bird photography coming your way.

North Queensland - Daintree - Atherton Tablelands - Cairns - Now Open for Bookings

11th October to 21st October 2019

We thought our inaugural itinerary in 2017 year was amazing, 2018 was even better and 2019 is going to be absolutely awesome! We have tweaked a few things to bring you even more private visits to special spots, combined with many tried and true locations.

A day boating to the outer reef for the opportunity to get some close-up photos of nesting and roosting sea birds on Michaelmas Cay. The most common being Sooty Tern, Lesser-crested Tern and Common Noddy with a sprinkling of Brown Booby and Frigatebirds. Bridled and Black-naped Terns and other rarities can sometimes be present as well.

Golden Bowerbirds, Riflebirds, Sunbirds and so much more.

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Hunter Valley - Newcastle - Cessnock - Now Open for Bookings

23rd October to 1st November 2019

We'll take you to Maitland to visit Walka Water Works. This is a fantastic resource for birds, both water and bush. An amazing old 19th century pump station has some wonderful colours in its brickwork too. 

You'll visit many of Dick’s secret locations.


A morning on the water will have you photographing Albatross and many other pelagic birds. 


The Hunter Valley Zoo and Hunter Valley Gardens will provide many, many opportunities for amazing images. 


A day at the Hunter Wetlands centre will be a highlight but there's so much more.

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Wildlife, Reptiles and Frogs Photography Workshop Sunday 19 May 2019

Wildlife, Reptiles and Frogs Photography Workshop 

Sunday 19 May 2019

Hi Everyone,

Come along and join me as I teach you  how to photograph the amazing world of small creatures.

Special guest, Tony Holden, from Nikon Australia will be along on the day with some terrific Nikon gear for you to try out. If you've been thinking about the amazing new Z cameras this will be a great chance to see and try.

Where:  Closeburn - N.W. Brisbane outskirts near Samford

We will start off with a session detailing correct camera settings and the best techniques for optimising exposure and focus. If you are not familiar with Back Button Focus all will be revealed and your cameras set up.
Some of the species are all but impossible to photograph in the wild, so this is a chance you will not want to miss.

You will have an amazing opportunity to photograph tame native wildlife at a private breeder’s collection.  Some of the native wildlife species that we will photograph (depending on availability on the day) include: 

• Leaf-tailed Gecko and Knob-tailed Gecko
• Bearded Dragon, Southern Angle-headed Dragon, Water Dragon and Boyd’s Rainforest Dragon
• Pink-tongue Skink, Blue-tongue Skink and Shingleback Lizard
• Carpet Python, Diamond Python and Brown Tree Snake
• Magnificent Tree Frog, Gold Tree Frog, Green Tree Frog, White-lipped Tree Frog and Burrowing Desert Frog
• Various other reptiles 

You will receive professional photographic tuition throughout the workshop. I will teach you how to take better photos as well as getting the most out of your camera.

To find out more just click on this -> LINK. or give me a call on 0459 221 678

Spaces are limited to 8 participants so you will have unfettered access to photograph and plenty of one-to-one tuition.

Hope you can make it along.

Cheers,

Mark