Author: DMcA

  • Cornwall long exposure

    A series of long exposure shots taken in early spring near Tintagel, Cornwall. This is a spectacularly lovely area that we used to come on holiday to as a family 60 years ago. I took all the shots with my Nikon Z7, a camera with great image quality, and almost no modern features compared to my Olympus OM1. Despite that I was quite pleased with the results, which were processed completely in On1 PhotoRaw.




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  • New Lightroom workflow for improved high frame rate bird photography

    ByDMcA

    Lightroom is a wonderful product, and I am wedded to it, but it does not provide a complete environment for post processing of high frame rate bird photography. In this…

  • Bempton Gannets landing

    Bempton cliffs on the east Yorkshire Coast is an excellent RSPB nature reserve. Its great feature is that the cliffs are over 300 ft high and as a result shots can be taken of the birds at eye level. The year-long residents of the cliffs are Gannets although in summer Puffins and other seabirds congregate there. Gannets are large birds and whilst attractive, they’re not particularly interesting in flight until they start to land, when their feet and wing movements are beautiful and comic at the same time.




    Capturing these landing moments is pretty difficult because they fly in at high speed from the sea and at the last minute either drop down or carry on, giving the photographer only a second or two to capture the landing . With most cameras, it’s very hard to do this, because by the time you recognise a landing is about to happen, you’ve missed it. With the latest Olympus OMD cameras however, there’s a feature called Pro Capture which is specifically designed for capturing split second events. Over the course of around 3 hours. I got around 800 in-focus shots of Gannetts landing. This is a selection of around 30 of the best of those, chosen because of the beauty of their wings or the comedy of their feet (or both).




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  • Hogsmill waterbirds

    Hogsmill Nature reserve is a perfect little wildlide refuge in an obscure part of Berrylands in south London. These shots were taken on my first ever visit. Around 120 bird species have been recorded at Hogsmill, some quite rare.

    These are shots of the very common Gull (plus a swan and a goose). In flight and loafing around, common Gulls are unremarkable, but when diving into and emerging from the water, they look quite beautiful. These shots were taken with the Olympus EM1x, using the Procapture feature plus Bird recognition autofocus, which enables the capture of events that occur before the shutter is pressed . No full frame camera at any price can do this.


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