Creative Bird Photography: Essential Tips and Techniques

Bill Coster

Jan 2011 · Greystone Books

About this ebook

This beautifully illustrated, inspirational guide to bird photography is packed with practical advice for how to photograph birds presented in an informative but accessible writing style. Creative Bird Photography offers a fresh approach to its subject, looking closely at how to photograph specific aspects of birds’ lives, such as eating and drinking, courtship, and flight. The author gives examples, demonstrating particular points and approaches for taking great shots of all of these daily bird activities as well as taking "mood" photographs at dawn and dusk. Each shot is accompanied by detailed technical data, information about locations, and advice about other challenges that will need to be surmounted in order to achieve the perfect shot. Coster also shares fascinating anecdotes about his encounters with the birds featured. There are also up-to-date sections on bird photography basics, including equipment and storage of digital images.

About the author

Bill Coster is one of the UK's leading wildlife photographers, and his work frequently appears in national bird and wildlife magazines and journals. He also has a regular monthly column in Birds Illustrated. He leads bird photography tours in North and South America and has travelled to every continent on earth in search of memorable images. Coster has lived in Essex, England for over 20 years, and it is from here that he sets out in pursuit of photographs of the natural world.