BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="CalvinFold" data-source="post: 3769454" data-attributes="member: 119570">Sorry for a tad of threadjacking here for a public service announcement:I'll give you a bit of a speech on flash photography:One of the reasons I seem defensive when I mention flash is that it's controversial where some birders and bird photographers are concerned. You have been warned.You have to do it with great care and always the bird's welfare should be the priority. If the bird seems bothered, don't do it.So far, most birds seem more bothered more by the noise my girlfriend's D700 makes when taking photos ("mirror slap" the right term?) than my flash. But I have had an odd bird really stare me down while taking flash photos, which means it's noticing too much, and I stop. Generally though, they ignore me or pay attention to me no more or less than usual, thankfully.Okay, so that's my flash photography speech; we now return you to your regularly scheduled SX70 discussion thread... |8)|</blockquote>