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It has been a long time since I have done a video on beginner tips to bird photography. Where I take you from start to finish. From the field, into lightroom. And this time I am photographing a garden bird, I never photographed before. The goldfinch. Hope you enjoy my little bird photography tutorial, on how I photograph small birds.
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32 Comments
Nice 👌, Are they that rare?? In the area where I live (in the city) and at this time of the year they are quite common….
Thanks for sharing another wonderful video like always, I really love your work and your videos, keep up with the awesome content 👌👍
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Hey Trond, wow fantastic Fotos. In Germany It`s called Stieglitz, the old Name. I`m looking forward to Watching your Videos, thank you. 🙂
Great to se professional photographer to photograph on a birdfeeder😃 Goldfinch is a beautiful bird 😃
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Stunning Trond, don’t worry what others think about your signature, it’s yours and not theirs to worry about.
Hi Trond 👋 Love this video – I also have about 10-15 different species coming to my feeders out back… What would you recommend for a blind?
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Great video I really enjoyed it many thanks
Beautiful post images. We get small Goldfinch flocks on our feeders all through the day. They stay on the feeders for a while unlike the Tits and Robins that fly in and only take just the one seed at a time.
Trond super video and nice to see you getting images of the goldfinch in a garden with a bird feeder and props which to be honest is how most of my photography is done so for me this is a big thumbs up. Until next time take care and stay safe my friend.
This seems to be one of the few species that has increased here in the U. K. over the last few years for as you say Trond a very beautiful finch and one you can get to photograph even in gardens if your lucky. A very nice selection of final images. 👍
What beautiful photos,.
We have a lot of the goldfinches in the garden at the moment, but looking at your photos I didn’t realise the extent of the colours that are on them. Obviously I see the colours on the birds but when I saw your pictures it was lovely. Thanks for sharing this with us.
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Wow! The gold finches you have over there are beautiful, nothing like the ones here in my part of Canada
Very good photo thank you 😊
Like your process 👍
Great video Trond. We were lucky enough to have these birds in Southern Wisconsin for a few years. They think they were brought here as pets and were either released or got loose. Our Goldfinches here are bright yellow with a black cap and some black on the wings.
great video and great shots
Really liked this video, Trond. This past summer, fall and winter I couldn't get around very well so I created a "bird studio" on one corner of our back porch. I was able to create the types of perches I wanted to use along with different types of backgrounds surrounding colors. I used potted plants with flowers of different colors; I used the trees in our backyard for different colored backgrounds; and I changed perches and flowers around frequently. Background colors changed with the type of lighting on the leaves and the seasons. I was photographing the birds from 10 to 12 feet distance and the background was 20 to 35 yards behind the birds. I used my 80-400 lens mostly at 400 but sometimes at 200 or less and always at f/5.6. Occasionally I used my 500mm f/4 G lens but still used 5.6 because f/4 depth of field was often too shallow for the birds at that distance. I was able to create the most artistic bird prints I have ever done with about 14 different species of birds. My favorite aspect ratio for cropping has been 9×16, mostly vertical but with a few horizontal shots, too. I like to use good negative space with the composition allows it. All of this extra effort has paid off in increased sales and invitations to show my work in more galleries. I use PS and Topaz DeNoise for processing. Hope I have offered some information that you might want to try, Trond. Oh, BTW, the birds come to the feeder and feed actively for about 15 to 20 minutes and then they disappear. About 15 to 20 minutes later they start drifting back in a few at a time and you will have several more minutes of good activity before they disappear and do it all over again. My birds are on FB if you want to take a look.
Great video tron and thanks for the information keep up the good work
I have some beautiful close up shots of Goldfinch from here in the UK Trond. Shot using a 200mm lens from about 6 feet away. A collection of Goldfinch are called a “Charm” and they are so charming as the name suggests. A stunning little bird and we get Charms of maybe 15 – 20 birds regularly at our feeding station, I could watch and photograph them all day along with Greenfinch and Blue Tits. I don’t do much post processing yet but looking at your work flow it’s something I must start doing I think to get the best out of what I already consider to be nice images straight out of camera. Your shots are stunning 👌👍
awesome, thank you! why would anyone ever comment about your signature? folks need to get a life! 🙂
That is a beautiful bird. Thanks Trond.
Your enthusiasm is infectious, Trond. Beautiful Images.
Outstanding video! I’m a little confused – I have Topaz gigapixel, sharpen and denoise- are you using something else?
Amazing video and pictures Trond! – any idea how far the distance between and the the bird was? – i'm guessing you were using your 500/f4? with/without TC?
Beautiful
It's a beautiful picture Trond.
Do you know any secrets to make a bird stand out more in an image and not appear so flat? It only appears to be flat in some instances and not all the time. Thanks in advance.
Lovely bird🎉