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In the past few years, the popularity of bird photography and the act of birding has become much more popular. Part of it comes from the pandemic and the other part comes probably from boredom and wanting to do something while hiking. Combine that with many photographers shooting in aperture priority essentially as an auto mode and you’ve got a problem that folks don’t always realize they’ve got. Sometimes their shots are out of focus by just a bit too much to be annoying. So what are you supposed to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Trust me, I’m not kidding you when I say this. Stop the lens down. For many, that seems like blasphemy. Traditional mindsets might say, “Well let’s see what images look like when stopped down to f5.6 instead of f8.” But the truth is that at the super telephoto focal lengths, no one will care and it’s not going to make your image any better. Really, really, really believe me on that last statement. We’re currently in a world that is hyper-saturated with birding images that are really, really boring. So at this point, getting beautiful bird photos is really more about capturing them doing really cool and unique things instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of birding photography is truly nothing special. It’s just like in street photography where you really have to capture a moment that’s unique and different — let alone make people notice something that they otherwise would’ve never paid attention to. Sure, everyone loves looking at wildlife. But show it off doing something special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you do that, stop the lens down a bit so that you’ve got a better chance of having the subject sharply in focus when you’re doing that. Always remember too that with full frame cameras, images get softer after f11. And for any smaller sensor, it does it for the equivalent depth of field of f11 on full-frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind.\/ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like \"Secret Order of the Slice.\" PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. 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