Bird Photography Pro Techniques First 30

Foreword

Either as a hobby or as a profession, you should have an objective in the quality of the final photo you aim for. In other words, you should strive for the best picture you desire. There is no point in saying that your pictures are mediocre in quality because you’re an amateur.
Some amateur photographers sometimes take better pictures than average professional photographers do. To be an excellent photographer, you should see many superb pictures that won world class photo awards.
You will see many such excellent pictures in the websites for Nature’s Best Photo Competition sponsored by Smithsonian Institution in America and Photographers of the Year Photo Competition sponsored by BBC in England. You can also buy their books for their award winning pictures.
All you have to do is to imitate their compositions and learn photo techniques the winners employed. One of the most important requirements to be a superb photographer as an amateur of a professional is to obtain refined taste in selecting right subjects and in recording them with most suitable photo techniques.
In this e-book I have shown all the techniques I had obtained and utilized in forty-four years of my picture-taking experience on some 2000 species of wild birds in 43 countries. I was awarded the Annual Grand Prix in nature science category by Nikon.
I sincerely wish that explanations for my pictures along with a story on each bird behavior in this e-book will help you take better pictures.
Index
Foreword
Photo Gear
Basic Photo Techniques
Male Mandarin Duck Taking a Bath
Mandarin Duck Pair
Peregrine Falcon on a Rock
Eurasian Nuthatches in a Fight
White-throated Needle-tailed Swift Scooping up Water
Kissing Narcissus Flycatcher Pair
Panning a Peregrine Falcon
White-eye Sapping Cherry Blossoms
Midair Prey Transfer by Peregrine Falcon Pair
Female Peregrine Falcon Carrying a Homing Pigeon
Peregrine Falcon in a Dive
Male Blue Rock Thrush Singing in Flight
White-eye Pair in the Saddle Tree
Long-tailed Tit Taking off
Great Egret Catching a Fish
Harlequin Ducks in Ice Floes
White-bellied Green Pigeon in the Waves
Great Egret Making a Splash
Little Tern Carrying a Fish
Whooper Swans at Rest
Black-headed Gulls in the Sky
Male Pine Grosbeak Eating an Apple
Eastern Reef Heron Landing
Japanese Cormorant Catching a Fish
Greater Painted Snipe with Young
Fighting Steller’s Sea Eagles
Oriental Turtle Dove Carrying a Twig
Common Sandpiper with Two Backgrounds
Daurian Redstart in Viburnum
Dancing Japanese Crane Pair

Author’s Profile
Lives in Yokohama, Japan.
Born in Japan in 1947 between American Father and Japanese Mother.
Worked for IBM for 37 years, 5 years in NY.
Studied Ornithology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Photographed about 2000 bird species in 43 countries.
Awarded Annual Grand Prix from Nikon in Nature Science Category.
Published more than 40 books.