BIRDS IN FLIGHT IN A NEW LIGHT
N.B. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS COPYRIGHT MARTIN GARNETT 2019
I am very pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of some of my photography: 'Birds in flight in a new light', at RSPB Ynys Hir Visitor Centre, in mid-Wales. It will be up until the end of June 2019 and entry is free from 1000 to 1700, daily including Sundays. This is my first exhibition of any kind and I am extremely grateful to RSPB for giving me the opportunity. If you visit, please remember to leave comments in the visitors book!
Since February 2017 I have been developing what I believe to be a new method of photographing small birds in flight. Textbooks will tell you that you need a shutter speed of 1/1000th second or faster. I have been using much slower shutter speeds of 1/60th to 1/4 second. You'd imagine that the results would be just a blur. Many times they are, but sometimes the photos can be sharp and also aesthetically pleasing:
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Great Tit - 1/30th second
As the shutter speed gets slower:
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| Great Tit - 1/13th second |
And slower:
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Blue Tit? - 1/10th second
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Here's some more pictures:
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| Female Chaffinch hovering - 1/60th second |
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Coal Tit take off - 1/5th second
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Great Tit take off -1/8th second
I will post more pictures soon!
About me: my name is Martin Garnett. My wife Annie and I are retired wildlife biologists. We live in beautiful southern Snowdonia. All photos were taken at our home near Dolgellau.
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