First Blog Post: Three years of Practice, What Now?

[Dave Throgmartin]

Bob,

I'm having some trouble figuring out the technical portion of the setup.

Where do you station yourself and how do you trigger the shutter? I assume you must have some type of blind and are using a wired shutter release?

Dave

[bob williams]

Bob,

I'm having some trouble figuring out the technical portion of the setup.

Where do you station yourself and how do you trigger the shutter? I assume you must have some type of blind and are using a wired shutter release?

Dave

Dave, this is the beauty of H-Bird photography. The green box is set up at one end of my back porch, and my camera is set up about 12 feet from the box at the other end of the back porch (my patio table sits between them). I also use an inexpensive radio trigger for the shutter release (about 30 bucks). So once I get everything set up, I just sit at my patio table and wait for the birds to hit the feeder. I do tray and make sure the feeder is out of the frame or replace the feeder with on or two flowers charged with sugar water. My focus point is usually the center or stem of the flower. After a few shots, I make adjustments as necessary and shoot again.

The nice part is no blind, the h-birds are very tolerant of people and equipment, so no need to hide. In fact, my wife often sits on the porch with me and we engage in normal conversation while I shoot.

[Dave Throgmartin]

Dave, this is the beauty of H-Bird photography. The green box is set up at one end of my back porch, and my camera is set up about 12 feet from the box at the other end of the back porch (my patio table sits between them). I also use an inexpensive radio trigger for the shutter release (about 30 bucks). So once I get everything set up, I just sit at my patio table and wait for the birds to hit the feeder. I do tray and make sure the feeder is out of the frame or replace the feeder with on or two flowers charged with sugar water. My focus point is usually the center or stem of the flower. After a few shots, I make adjustments as necessary and shoot again.

The nice part is no blind, the h-birds are very tolerant of people and equipment, so no need to hide. In fact, my wife often sits on the porch with me and we engage in normal conversation while I shoot.

Bob,

What radio shutter trigger do you recommend? It looks like my 60D doesn't have quite the options the higher end Canon camera have. B&H has a Vello B&H # VERWC1 that would appear to work.

Do you know if radio shutter's would work from behind a glass deck door?

Dave

[bob williams]

Bob,

What radio shutter trigger do you recommend? It looks like my 60D doesn't have quite the options the higher end Canon camera have. B&H has a Vello B&H # VERWC1 that would appear to work.

Do you know if radio shutter's would work from behind a glass deck door?

Dave

I use the Bower wireless shutter release, cheap but works well. Here is a link to the B&H page http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search...tialSearch=yes just pick the one that is right for your camera. They should work through glass as long as the range isn't too far.