by Sigdmin | Apr 5, 2022 | Inspiration, Learning In Lockdown, Photo Tips, Sigma Ambassadors
As mentioned in my previous article on Plane Spotting, written for Sigma South Africa during the Covid-19 Level 3 and 4 Lockdown which I suggest you read along with this article, I have no claim to fame as a knowledgeable person on aircraft and I don’t even like...
by Sigdmin | Jul 28, 2021 | Inspiration, Learning In Lockdown, Photo Tips, Sigma Ambassadors
I have no claim to fame as a knowledgeable person on aircraft. I don’t even like flying. I am however a sport and action photographer and a self-confessed petrol-head, so I love the sound of aircraft engines, the bigger the better, and photographing them doing their...
by Sigdmin | Mar 22, 2021 | Inspiration, Learning In Lockdown, Photo Tips, Sigma Ambassadors
I believe every birding photographer, after getting all the regular ID type shots, will work his way towards photographing birds doing some sort of activity. This would imply the typical foraging or eating photos, building nests, birds in flight (also see my previous...
by Sigdmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Inspiration, Learning In Lockdown, Photo Tips, Sigma Ambassadors
I regularly see many photographers posting their birding images on social media, websites etc, in the typical ID pose – full body, cleanish background, head turned slightly sideways to show off the profile of the head and bill, feather detail and colours, and legs...
by Sigdmin | Jun 27, 2020 | Inspiration, Learning In Lockdown, Photo Tips, Sigma Ambassadors
Ask any three nature photographers how to do birds in flight, and you’ll probably get three different responses. Everyone who do this has developed a method that works for them. Usually it is dependent on type and model of camera body, same for the lens in use and...
