https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:40:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/05/15/is-it-possible-to-make-beautiful-small-in-the-frame-images-of-shorebirds-that-include-habitat-and-sony-alpha-1-af-magic/ https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/05/15/is-it-possible-to-make-beautiful-small-in-the-frame-images-of-shorebirds-that-include-habitat-and-sony-alpha-1-af-magic/#comments Sat, 15 May 2021 10:23:37 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=73995 In general, shorebirds live in flat, featureless, — usually pretty ugly places. There is not usually much of interest on a sandy beach or a mudflat. Your best chance of creating an artistically pleasing image is to get right down on the ground as close as possible to the bird’s eye level. [...]]]> https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/05/15/is-it-possible-to-make-beautiful-small-in-the-frame-images-of-shorebirds-that-include-habitat-and-sony-alpha-1-af-magic/feed/ 26 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/01/16/ile-gbh-scape-color-or-black-and-white/ https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/01/16/ile-gbh-scape-color-or-black-and-white/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:40:58 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=71412 I got some nice stuff on Sandhill Cranes on Friday morning. My favorite was mildly backlit, with a shaded foggy-water-with-all-dark tree-reflections background. Then I drove to the North Field, put on my heavy-duty waders, got out the loppers, and opened up a nice viewing window for my sunset photography. The sunset looked promising [...]]]> https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/01/16/ile-gbh-scape-color-or-black-and-white/feed/ 25