….photography that is, and especially in bird photography. Birds have a knack of keeping to the shade, usually with their backs to the camera causing the person behind the lens to shrug in frustration. Sometimes though it’s not a bad thing, the softness of the light and other factors can give pleasing results. With the moon in perigee I took a few shots, and to get the proper exposure I dialled in minus 2.3 stops. The next day I took a couple of shots of a king parrot in poor light, and of course forgot to reset the exposure compensation to zero, resulting in grossly under exposed images. Nowadays though I have the camera set to take raw files, and after opening them in Corel Aftershot Pro I adjusted the exposure to produce a couple of what I think are very nice images.
On another gloomy day a Satin Bowerbird paused in the angophora and the resulting photographs also had a certain quality of subtlety to them. A feeding table is below the angophora, that accounts for all the claw marks in the bark, it’s a popular perching spot. All shots were taken hand held without the benefit of an image stabilised lens.
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