Quick tips for Bird Photography

I like to start with a question about what place you are visiting to photograph the birds. Because, depending on that time can be set for a better photography. This greatly help for the guys with entry level lens as mine (55-250mm).

I selected to go to the lake side where the below photograph was taken at around 2PM, which was excellent light to capture the detail of the bird, and no compromise with ISO and a faster shutter helped me to capture the moment precisely.

Canon 600D - f/5.6, ISO200, 200mm Focal Length

Purple Swamphen

Morning you can find birds but there will be problem with lighting and you need to struggle not to be facing the sun. And for birds with in forest morning and evening time is more preferable but lot to be compromised. Here are some pics taken.

Canon 600D - f/11, ISO800, 250mm Focal Length

Grey Malabar

So keep your eyes open, experiment with all day long for better light, you never know when you would encounter a perfect shot.

Sharavathi Valley - 1

We started from Bangalore around 10 PM from our own vehicle. Anticipating a better experience in mind and lot of excitement our journey halted after a couple of hours to get rid of flattened tire.

But nobody had any foul thought on this. And journey resumed after a cup of tea from a so called Hotel.  

The morning mist on the way to shimoga was awesome, feeling the coolness we headed to Shimoga.

And we started heading to Shimoga, and reached there by around 8-8.45 AM, where we met our guide Mr. Narayan.

Parked our vehicle, and had a decent breakfast arranged by our guide, started ascending by around 10 AM. Here are some of the pics

And we got to see a porcupine’s thorn, a bird eggs on that rocky hill just before entering the forest.

Then started an amazing grassland area, where we all rested for some time, as the mountain was at an altitude where everybody started calling their well wishers of their whereabouts, because after this you can’t find any network till dusk.

Then we entered the forest area with climbing rocks and descending on the steep regions at an angle almost 70 Degree. After 6 hours of trek, we halted at a fall for bathing and the lunch was prepared by the cook bought by our guide.

Again resuming after lunch, we started towards a place “Basavan Bai” (Bulls Mouth) which was another 4 hours of trek. Here is the glimpse

Had a sumptuous meal prepared by the local cook. Still remember the taste... YUMMY. We finally laid down in our tents

Will post more....