today we want to get you started photographingbirds and creating beautiful photos that will inspire you and make you become a total twitcher.a fantastic place to start photographing birds is at your local zoo so let's go check itout. hi photographers welcome to easy camera lessons,the best photographs have the power to evoke emotion and tell stories, we want to helpyou have the confidence to get out there and tell your stories with your camera.one of the first things to remember about bird photography is behaviour , the cool thingabout that unique bird is that it does this specific thing. telling a story with yourbird photography means you are sharing something really unique about that bird. in regardsto the technical stuff you kind of need a
lens that is about 200mm minimum to photographbirds. thats going to allow you to get a little bit closer. you can try with whatever lensyou've got of course but birds are usually a small animal and they are quite a distanceaway so the longer your lens the more of your frame you can fill up with your bird. whenyou are photographing with long lenses one of the problems you can bump into is sometimesyou look at your photo and it's a little bit blurry and you're not sure why because youwere sure it's in focus , so when that happens it's probably camera shake.camera shake occurs when the lens bumps a little bit while you are photographing. nowwe have done a whole other video about camera shake which you can watch here if you areinterested.
but the main rule is that you need to makeyour shutter speed a little bit higher to make up for the length of your lens so ifyour lens is a 200mm lens the rule is that you make your shutter speed twice the lengthof the lens and that will completely eliminate camera shake. so there you go a few easy tips to help youget out there and get started taking beautiful photos of birds. hey just before you go, wehave a really friendly and encouraging facebook group called ecl_share , the link is in thedescription below and you can come over and hang out with all the other photographersthere. thanks for watching!