![]() It may be difficult to choose your favourite brand. By the way good semi pro photographic equipment tends to keep its value many yearsl, so one you have gathered a good set of equipment, you can gradually improve your potential without loosing too much money. Think about all the years you may enjoy your birding. However it is definitely worthwhile if you can spend the money. If you choose to use this RAW workflow do realise that this approach takes some learning, accurate setting of your camera and more money and time. Once you go that way it makes sense to use high quality equipment in the first place and upgrade the entire process of bird photography to a higher level. If you perform this image upgrading yourself using professional editing software like Adobe Lightroom, Nikon ViewNx or Capture NX you can improve this substantally particularly in borderline cases of reach, low available light or fast action, as we already mentioned. A digital camera is set up to automatically apply this sharpening and “developing” of the RAW digital image and produce “out of the box” JPG files. It looks a bit pale and dull and always needs extra sharpening and extra coloring and contrast. However if you happen to be a “seriousl and enthousiast” bird photographer and you want to get the very best possible photographs also in borderline situations like in low available light, at large distances or of fast flying brds (“ BIF’s“), you should use RAW workflow.Ī digital camera produces a digital image which is rather imperfect. Using your camera in Automatic mode “P“, one of the four “PASM modes“, is far more easy and may also produce fairly good pictures. It is the most succesful approach to bird photography. Bird typical behaviour: “Marsh terns” like Black and Whiskered Tern pick up insects or small fishes from the water surface. Post production in Adobe Lightroom: RAW conversion, soft crop, noise reduction, white balance correction, optimilisation EXPOSURE and detail, tuning light contrast in four light caategories: highlights, whites, shadows, blacks. Tripod D300 Nikkor 300mm f/4D equivalent 630mm standard camouflage. ![]() Foto at top: Typical example of RAW workflow: Lesbos spring 2011, only seconds to shoot this picture: Black Tern (Zwarte Stern) 25 meter sun.
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