Pictures of Birds

It's very tricky to get really good pictures of birds. Bird photography, like other kinds of nature photography, requires a lot of patience. This gallery page is for everyone to share their bird photos.

A long and powerful zoom lens allows you get closer for better results. Set your camera for a high ISO setting if you can. This will give you a faster shutter speed to get sharp, blur-free images of these rapidly moving birds.

This photo was taken by tinyfish and can be seen on Flickr by clicking on the photo. Perfect timing and a high shutter speed produced this great result for a photo.

It is a White-breasted NutHatch. This species is one of the rare ones that does not migrate south during the cold winter months. It stays in the frozen tundra of Canada.

Do you think those feet are going to grab onto something?

I loved the way the sunlight lit up the head of this cardinal. It look as if he is poking his head out from the shade to have a look as us.

One of those rules of composition tells us that having diagonal lines included in your images is pleasing to the eye. The diagonal of the branch is balanced by the smaller diagonal of the cardinal's beak.

This picture titled Owl Eyes taken by Matthew Hull shows that close cropping can eliminate distractions from the background.

Normally I don't include nasty photos in my nature photography collections. This Ostrich looks pretty menacing.

Ozgary captured great detail in this picture. Since the subject was fairly close to the camera lens, the background is pleasantly out of focus.

You can pick up a lot of tips on taking digital photography by visiting galleries and reading the comments. You get a feel for who is educated in photography and who is not.

Happy Shooting
Photo TipMan

p.s. Share your bird photos with us. Get your photographs critiqued by submitting them below. It's a great way to get feedback and improve your digital photography.

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