Steve Ting Nature Photography

Many nature photographers put their camera away when the sky is overcast. This is unfortunate because the soft light from an overcast sky combined with fill flash can make for some great photo opportunities. The high dynamic range of many birds and the bright colors are often best photographed in soft lighting.

Below is an example take this morning. A Western Meadowlark taken at ISO 400, f/8.0 at 1/300. Fill flash set manually to half the distance to the bird.

Later this afternoon there was a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk terrorizing the birds at my feeders. I was able to get a shot of him flying in.

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