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    • HCT Owls
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    • Hawk Conservancy Trust Kites
    • Hawk Conservancy Trust Falcons
    • Richmond park Pen Ponds
    • California coastal birds 2020
    • Red Kites at Gigrin – E-M1ii
    • Red Kites at Gigrin – D850
    • Owls at Willows
    • Gannets and Guillemots at Bempton
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    • Birds of Prek Toal
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    • The J&H McA Academy
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Long exposure with OM computational photography

Long exposure with OM computational photography

ByDMcA March 8, 2025March 10, 2025

Long exposure (LE) photographs, particularly of seascapes, rivers or waterfalls, can create magical effects that allow you to express your creativity, and to show elements of the scene that the…

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Perfect long exposure with physical ND filters

Perfect long exposure with physical ND filters

ByDMcA January 12, 2025March 8, 2025

Long exposure photographs, particularly of seascapes, rivers or waterfalls, can create magical effects that allow you to express your creativity, and to show elements of the scene that the eye…

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OM-1 settings for landscape and long exposure photography

OM-1 settings for landscape and long exposure photography

ByDMcA December 23, 2024April 3, 2025

This is a companion to my settings for birds in flight (which are shown in detail here, and here). This time it’s my settings for landscape and long exposure photography….

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Giant OM1 I and II spreadsheets of my top photo settings

Giant OM1 I and II spreadsheets of my top photo settings

ByDMcA December 1, 2024February 14, 2025

In this post, I present a complete list of all my OM menu settings in giant OM1 I and II spreadsheets, with the logic for every non-standard setting explained. The…

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Perfect exposure on the wing with the OM1

Perfect exposure on the wing with the OM1

ByDMcA May 2, 2024December 21, 2024

Shooting birds in flight at high shutter speeds may require high ISOs when there is low light. This is often quoted as a drawback of the Olympus system, because of…

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My OM1 birds in flight settings

My OM1 birds in flight settings

ByDMcA April 30, 2024December 24, 2024

This is a description of my approach to the Olympus OM1 (any version) when shooting birds in flight (BIF). This is super technical and only intended for those owning an…

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Taking better birds in flight photos

Taking better birds in flight photos

ByDMcA April 27, 2024July 6, 2024

I started photographing birds in flight (BIF) in 2017 in Cape Town, having previously concentrated mainly on long exposure sea and river scapes, and street photography. I had heard that…

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Noordhoek seascape

Taking and processing interesting* seascapes

ByDMcA April 20, 2024July 6, 2024

In March 2024 I returned to our place in Noordhoek, Cape Town for the first time since 2019.  Circumstances like Covid and grandchildren had kept us away, and my main…

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Getting the best from On1 Photo Raw and Lightroom Classic

Getting the best from On1 Photo Raw and Lightroom Classic

ByDMcA April 3, 2022July 6, 2024

On1 Photo Raw is a post processing program that in my opinion exceeds the capabilities of Lightroom Classic in many ways. It’s become my default software for both birds in…

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New Lightroom workflow for improved high frame rate bird photography

New Lightroom workflow for improved high frame rate bird photography

ByDMcA March 8, 2022July 6, 2024

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…

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  • Birds in Flight
    • Cape Town birds in flight
    • Bempton vertical landings
    • Cambodia: Prek Toal and Siem Pang wildlife reserves
    • Superfast Falcon and Kite shots with the OM1
    • Hawk Conservancy Trust try-out for new OM1 camera
    • Bempton Gannets landing
    • Hogsmill waterbirds
    • Hogsmill songbirds
    • Farne Islands seabirds (and seals)
    • Richmond Pen Ponds Gulls, Duck, Geese and Terns
    • HCT Owls
    • More Richmond Park Pen Ponds
    • Hawk Conservancy Trust Kites
    • Hawk Conservancy Trust Falcons
    • Richmond park Pen Ponds
    • California coastal birds 2020
    • Red Kites at Gigrin – E-M1ii
    • Red Kites at Gigrin – D850
    • Owls at Willows
    • Gannets and Guillemots at Bempton
    • Puffins at Bempton
    • Birds of Prek Toal
    • Sacred Ibis at Cape Town
  • Cars
    • Dick’s cars
    • Wijnlands cars
  • Landscape
    • Moravian Tuscany in April
    • Taiwan – Alishan forest, Tainan skies and Lions Head mountain
    • Taiwan central mountains – Taipingshan to Henuanshan
    • La Rocheliere
    • Lofoten landscapes
    • Lofoten Aurora
    • Yorkshire and Northumberland landscapes and seascapes
    • Watergardens
  • Macro
    • Frozen small things
    • Small things
  • People
    • Apulia Street and Beach
    • Taiwan and Cambodia street
    • Dawn in Wall Street
    • Cape Town Beach and Pier
    • Crab ladies – portraits
    • Crab ladies – the market
    • Crab ladies – the catch
    • Cambodia: Phnom Penh Market portraits
    • Cambodia street, train and sea
    • Batambang market
    • The J&H McA Academy
    • Cambodia: Phnom Penh Market scenes
    • Armageddon
    • Asian portraits
    • Cape Town portraits
    • Crab ladies of Kep
    • Beach
    • Hanoi and Da Nang portraits
    • London
    • Spain and France
  • Sea, river and long exposure
    • Adriatic Trabucci and Seascapes
    • Cape Town Seascapes 1
    • Cape Town seascapes 2
    • Kep sea and river
    • Cambodia: Long exposure shots of Kulen waterfall
    • Cornwall long exposure
    • Around Britain
    • Cape Town
    • London bridges
    • Far east
    • Europe
    • Lofoten Long Exposure Seascapes
    • Gironde carralet
    • USA
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