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Who is your favorite bird photographer and why? (1 Viewer)
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iveljay
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Cherry Kearton
More a wildlife photographer who perhaps with his brother were the Attenborough of the 19th century, but one of the early photographers who inspired me to rebuild old lenses from large folding/plate cameras and mount them in tubes so that I could use them as long focus bird lenses on my mid 60's Praktica Vf.
I think it was an article in a magazine I came across first talking about the difficulties of early wildlife photographers. Unfortunately the Internet was a long time in the future.
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/keacam/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Kearton
We may not approve of snares for Puffins but this book is an important reference on how things were.
More a wildlife photographer who perhaps with his brother were the Attenborough of the 19th century, but one of the early photographers who inspired me to rebuild old lenses from large folding/plate cameras and mount them in tubes so that I could use them as long focus bird lenses on my mid 60's Praktica Vf.
I think it was an article in a magazine I came across first talking about the difficulties of early wildlife photographers. Unfortunately the Internet was a long time in the future.
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/keacam/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Kearton
We may not approve of snares for Puffins but this book is an important reference on how things were.
scary-canary
Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some
It's not a strange question at all. It's just an interesting topic of conversation. Don't you have heroes?
Chris
Geoff Brown
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Well from the old days there was the great Eric Hosking. A more modern representative would be the long time RSPB photographer Chris Gomersall. Both of them always produced inspiring work which worked for me and most of it (especially Eric's work) was not digitally generated on a card.
There are too many great bird photographers out there, you only have to go on many of the bird or photography forums to see that - and the quality of their work inspires me.
If I had to pick one book then it would be Tim Laman & Edwin Scholes' amazing Birds Of Paradise :
If I had to pick one book then it would be Tim Laman & Edwin Scholes' amazing Birds Of Paradise :
Mick R
Active member
totally agree :t:
my passion & spiritual home is Thailand, & for me nobody captures the birds of Siam quite like Somchai Kanchanasut - a top bird photographer that i've admired for many years now....
https://www.flickr.com/photos/somchai2008/
I will have to choose between two, one being in the conventional style of photography and the other being in that of digiscoping.
In the first it would be Nigel Blake as the quality and style of his images were and still are a benchmark for me. Secondly would be Laurence Poh who introduced the world to digiscoping and also was able to acquire some fantastic images in an unconventional manner and share his knowledge of the art freely.
phil
In the first it would be Nigel Blake as the quality and style of his images were and still are a benchmark for me. Secondly would be Laurence Poh who introduced the world to digiscoping and also was able to acquire some fantastic images in an unconventional manner and share his knowledge of the art freely.
phil
scary-canary
Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some
David Cottridge and Robin Chittenden were ahead of the pack for rarities on the 1980s. I learnt a lot about composition from copying their style.
Chris
Chris
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