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 |
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.
Photos are for sale! Contact me @ martingarnett56@gmail.com
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Please leave a comment here!
ReplyDeleteDear Martin, Your photos give us a new way of seeing your bird friends, an incredible chance to enter their world. How little we know and understand. Thank you for giving us a glimpse of another world.
DeleteIt is a hard time for nature everywhere...especially due to intensive farming and the catching of migrating birds for food in foreign parts, but the more people become aware of nature, the more they can care for it, and fight for it.
Your work is doing just that. Thank you so much. Elizabeth Pankhurst
I am so glad that you enjoyed the photographs. Thank you so much for your lovely comments Elizabeth! I hope that the photos do indeed help people to see another aspect of just how wonderful nature is.
DeleteI think the photos are fabulous, partly in to the mythic sense. There are hints of angelic wings and hints of reptile (in the chaffinch). I'm looking forward to seeing more at the exhibition.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your lovely comments Jan. We're looking forward to seeing you here, soon.
DeleteLove these pictures. They transform the usual bird photography from still life to poetry in motion!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your lovely comment!
DeleteFascinating and beautiful photos Martin. I'm curious to know how you manage this with a black background, which gives them a very special quality? With warmest wishes to you and Annie, Chris Bowden
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