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Improve Your Wildlife Photography with One Easy Tip
You know better than your camera.
One of my favourite subjects to photograph is wildlife — in particular birds and bees. There is one huge frustration, however, they move fast.
Those movements can be large, such as flying off when you least expect it, but also small, such as flicks of tails and head movements.
If you find a large number of your photos have too much motion blur, there is a way you can improve your hit rate. And you don’t have to spend a penny on fancy gear.
Under expose your images
This may sound like a bad move, especially if you have been taught to Expose To The Right (ETTR). ETTR means slightly overexposing and can help with noise levels and detail in a lot of images.
In sports and wildlife photography, however, things move fast. You’ll want the fastest shutter speed you can get without increasing the ISO and introducing noise.
The most effective way I’ve found of increasing the number of photographs I get without too much blur is to underexpose my images.
My preferred method is to bracket my exposures as then I can include a fully exposed shot, which, if there is no movement, will require the least work in post-processing.
