![]() ![]() ![]() This is usually accomplished by re-inserting the memory card into your camera and formatting the card, which effectively erases the memory card, and you can take your next series of photos starting with a clear memory card. The name for this photograph is “Owls – Short-eared Owl portrait ND 3-18.”Īfter you have downloaded photos from your camera’s memory card, and double-checked to make sure your photos have definitely been transferred to the external hard drive, you can erase the photos from your memory card. If your computer doesn’t have a built-in card reader, you will need an external memory card reader that you can plug into your computer then plug your external hard drive into your computer, and download the photos from your memory card onto your external hard drive. To download your photos from your camera memory card to a hard drive, you simply plug your memory card into your computer’s memory card reader. ![]() I find this plan is the best bet for photographers. Instead they save their photo files in a separate external hard drive, which is a compact device about the size of a cellphone that you connect to your computer when needed. That’s fine, but most photographers take so many photos that they prefer not to keep their digital photo files on their home or office computer. Each digital photo you take is initially automatically stored on a memory card in your camera, so what next? Your first inclination may have been to store your photos on your personal computer. If you are interested in learning this technique, as well as multiple flash for hummingbirds, and photographing an amazing array of birds like toucans, tanagers, honey creepers, and of course hummingbirds, check out our workshop here.By now, you’ve started taking photographs of birds, and I hope you have already taken some beauties. Remember you can’t shoot at 20FPS using flash! But the majority of my images are taken with available light. ![]() I like to use my WR-R10 on my Z9 to eliminate the bulky cable.ĭo I use fill flash on all my birds? Only occasionally when the light conditions are not working…bright backgrounds on shaded birds, dark overcast murky light. You can trigger your flash using these brackets using a wireless transmitter or a flash cable. Other companies like Whimberly have brackets that can mount the flash at different heights to deal with steel-eye. Pictured above is a RRS flash bracket that gets the flash a few inches higher which will help solve the issue. To mount your flash a little higher on your camera you have many options. If the bird isn’t looking at you, you will not see steel-eye…see the picture above. I’ve shot hundreds of birds, monkeys and other animals using camera mounted flash with no problems. How can you fix this? Two options…elevate your flash, or fix it in Photoshop. This occurs when the bird is looking right at the camera, and the flash is mounted directly on the camera. If you look close you can see a gray lower highlight in the bottom of the eye. I used a camera mounted flash with better beamer to photograph this sylph. But you might notice something else in the eyes….steel-eye. Adding just a kiss of light will improve color, contrast, acuity and add catchlights into the eyes. Make sure to enable High Speed Sync so you can use shutter speeds faster than 1/250. You don’t want to darken the background, just add a slight touch of flash to the bird. For metering I use manual mode and set the correct exposure. I normally set my flash to TTL at -2 or even lower to add just a touch of light to the scene. You can attach this right onto the flash, and attach the flash directly onto your camera. First, you will want to add a Better Beamer or similar flash extender to project your flash far enough into the scene. The sylph has a long tail and incredible color…but the overcast light wasn’t highlighting this plumage.įill flash for bird photography can get a little gear intensive. One day we had a lot of clouds roll in, and I decided to use fill flash to add just a little snap to the shot. We stayed at a hotel high in the cloud forest, and literally had hundreds of hummingbirds at the feeders right outside our room…over 20 species, including the Violet-tailed sylph. Cree and I were putting the finishing touches on our future Ecuador workshops…if you like to photograph birds, you will want to go on this workshop. I just returned from an incredible bird photography trip to Ecuador. ![]()
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