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Wildlife photography

Tip 3 Freeze movement with fast shutter
speeds and use a burst mode to
Understand your settings capture a series of images you can
then comp together
Practice taking control of your camera to get the perfect shot

As well as taking the time to research the where you set a slightly slower shutter speed
species, take time to get to know your than you would usually and as you press the
camera. If you want to freeze the bird’s shutter, move your body around smoothly
movements, you’ll need to utilise fast shutter in the direction the bird is travelling in. This
speeds. Exactly how fast will depend on the should ensure that the bird is in focus and
species and how quickly they fly, but anything sharp but the background will have a nice

faster than 1/500sec is a good start. blurred effect. As a rough guide, use around
If you want to deliberately create some 1/400sec for fast birds in flight, but you can

motion in your image, try panning. This is drop it lower and experiment.

Capture action
Learn how to freeze movement for sharp bird images

Use Aperture Priority Raise the ISO Shoot a burst
Set your camera to Aperture Priority. f8 will keep most of your Once you’ve got your aperture set, you’ll need to pick an ISO. If your Set your camera to a continuous shooting or burst mode to
subject sharp and this will also allow for a faster shutter speed to shots are coming out a bit blurry, raise the ISO to tell the camera to capture several images with just one press of the shutter button.
be set, however wider apertures will blur the background further, pick a faster shutter speed. The higher ranges will cause noise to This means you’ll have a better chance of capturing the precise

so experiment until you get the point you want. appear in shots though. moment you are a er.

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