digi-birder
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Last Thursday and Friday I was helping at a conference that my boss organised and while there I picked up a book (that he also published, so I am unable to divulge the title, etc).
In the first chapter, about the development of bird photography, there was a passage that made me cringe and smile at the same time.
In the gallery on BF, reference has been made (jokingly) to people sticking the more flighty birds onto the branch in order to get a photo, as it's virtually impossible to get shots of, say, Long-tailed Tit as they never seem to sit still for more than a milli-second.
This book makes reference to an early bird photography pioneer, who took superb photos of waders. Apparently, he would catch the bird, tie a stone to its feet and then stand the bird in a pool, where it had to stand still. This was in the days of half-plate cameras.
It was a little later that it was discovered that a hide (blind) would suffice!!
I won't say much more about the book, but as I've been dipping into it, I've found it to be quite fascinating, apart from the photos being in black and white.
In the first chapter, about the development of bird photography, there was a passage that made me cringe and smile at the same time.
In the gallery on BF, reference has been made (jokingly) to people sticking the more flighty birds onto the branch in order to get a photo, as it's virtually impossible to get shots of, say, Long-tailed Tit as they never seem to sit still for more than a milli-second.
This book makes reference to an early bird photography pioneer, who took superb photos of waders. Apparently, he would catch the bird, tie a stone to its feet and then stand the bird in a pool, where it had to stand still. This was in the days of half-plate cameras.
It was a little later that it was discovered that a hide (blind) would suffice!!
I won't say much more about the book, but as I've been dipping into it, I've found it to be quite fascinating, apart from the photos being in black and white.
