by Sigdmin | Mar 22, 2021 | Inspiration, Learning In Lockdown, Photo Tips, Sigma Ambassadors
I believe every birding photographer, after getting all the regular ID type shots, will work his way towards photographing birds doing some sort of activity. This would imply the typical foraging or eating photos, building nests, birds in flight (also see my previous...
by Sigdmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Inspiration, Learning In Lockdown, Photo Tips, Sigma Ambassadors
I regularly see many photographers posting their birding images on social media, websites etc, in the typical ID pose – full body, cleanish background, head turned slightly sideways to show off the profile of the head and bill, feather detail and colours, and legs...
by Sigdmin | Jun 27, 2020 | Inspiration, Learning In Lockdown, Photo Tips, Sigma Ambassadors
Ask any three nature photographers how to do birds in flight, and you’ll probably get three different responses. Everyone who do this has developed a method that works for them. Usually it is dependent on type and model of camera body, same for the lens in use and...
by Sigdmin | Apr 28, 2020 | Latest Sigma News, Learning In Lockdown, News, Sigma Ambassadors
As a wildlife photographer it is often far too easy to get stuck in the notion that you have to be in the bush capturing the big five to create powerful images. When lockdown began, a sense of dread consumed me, and the reality of having to put my camera away for the...