Author Archives: Micah

My transformation project is now complete, and I have to say it went better than I thought it would. The pictures I took exceeded my expectations, and I am quite pleased with the shots I was able to take. I was not expecting to be able to get so many great bird pictures, and IContinue reading “Overview”

A couple weeks ago, hummingbirds started coming to our feeder, and ever since then I have been trying to capture them in a photo. My first few attempts were quite poor because my camera was focusing on the feeder and not the bird. I kept at it, and I eventually got a couple good picturesContinue reading “Hummingbird”

I have a couple of tulips blooming in my front yard, so I thought it would be a good time to try out a different setting on the camera. There is a setting you can turn to that has a little picture of a flower and is supposed to make super close-up photos clearer andContinue reading “Flower Setting”

My family recently got an oriole feeder, and I was lucky enough to be able to get a picture of an oriole eating at the feeder. Unfortunately, the picture had a lot of shadows, and was quite dark, so I decided it was a good time to try to edit another photo. I was quiteContinue reading “Oriole”

Something I have learned over the last couple months of doing this project is that photography requires quite a bit of patience. Birds and animals aren’t going to stand in one place for you so you can photograph them. You need to be ready to get out your camera the minute you see something youContinue reading “Patience”

Here are a few more pictures that I have taken in the last week:

I recently took a photo of a couple of goldfinch’s at my feeder at home, and decided to try editing it. The picture by itself was not extremely colourful, and was kind of dull, so I tried to make it more vibrant. Surprisingly to me, it actually looks better than I expected, and I mayContinue reading “Editing”

While reading about how to take better nature photos on https://contrastly.com/breathtaking-nature-photos/, I came across a trick that I had heard about before, but hadn’t tried out very much. I read about the rule of thirds. This tip says that instead of taking photos with the subject in the dead centre of the frame, it isContinue reading “The Rule Of Thirds”