that's magical for me the variety of amount of species there
is always familiar birds around you calling and singing so many
opportunities that your life is too short to take good shots of even every
Finnish bird
to work with the same species again and again the main thing is to get better
photographs something new for me and maybe hopefully something new that
nobody else has taken before well it's the kickoff Hawk of it's the first out
of three chicks that have jumped out from the nest hole
to know your target is the main thing in nature photography if you disturb the
bird you don't get the shots that's the basic thing waiting for the right moment
the right situation is in every case is different
it can happen after a few seconds it can happen after few days but you have to be
ready when I was much younger I was a sprint of doing 200 meters just before
the start you have to be ready when the gun fires you have to be ready when the
bird arrives during one second happens a lot and with ten frames helps to get the
best out of the action you need a lot of things from the camera gear and from the
optics and of course autofocus in this kind of case is very crucial when the
mail came to bring food for the kicks they look like they were almost kissing
the technologies now they're so good that it's more up to you to take the
good shots
to get something that stands out you need special light really nice
background right angle for the light in the evening and of course there must be
individuals birds that are not too shy and local guide might know the right
place to try this kind of shot
black-throated Iver is I think one of the most beautiful bird in the world
it's very primitive very graphic black-and-white and one of the targets
was to get real close ups of the head showing the beautiful eye every time I I
am shooting them I get something new when they come out from the water there
there is quite often many water drops in lines on the top of the head combined
with water crops and other patterns it's really beautiful it has 32 million
pixels and that means that you can really to mean it's a very big file and
of course afterwards you have freedom to crop it freedom to compose like you want
to do with
I've been shooting so many years that I have shot almost all Finnish bird
species and you have to think about how to make new pictures with new ideas new
technology gives you more freedom for taking remote shots and it's good to at
least see and maybe also take pictures of other animals maybe get some fresh
ideas how to capture the soul of the bird I might be the only wildlife
photographer in Finland who has never been seeing or shooting brown bears
well I have never ever seen a brown bear before so this is something you for me
I'm the bird man but it's really nice to shoot also brown bears happy to be here
it's moving the prom beer there we bit nice position I think I will try take
some more shots
now I approach the remote control place let's see what happens we have put the
camera outside there and waiting for the brown bear to go close and now it's
coming yes in wildlife photography and especially in bird photography the
element of surprise is always there you have made a big good plan to shoot
something and then you can fail it totally spend one beacon without taking
any good shot but then suddenly something else happens in the hide
wherever you are you have a chance to find nice places to shoot birds so you
don't have to travel hundreds of kilometres to find one unless it's
closer and you believe
technology change has made it totally different file size is totally different
the abilities to shoot in low light conditions and a normal day one battery
has been enough with 90 D I think it's more or less up to you go out and take
the shot the technology allows it
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