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Category Archives: Meet Your Neighbours
Meet Your Neighbours technical standards. NB
Shoulders-back-chest-out-chin-in-head-up, I need to lay the law down here! When it comes to the technical specifications for Meet Your Neighbours pictures, we’re needing uniformity so that ALL the attention is on the subject rather than the prowess of the photographer. … Continue reading
Meet Your Neighbours enters a new phase. NB
I’ve long bemoaned the fact that none of the major nature photo competitions admit anything but standard images and bar “radical” (that is, imaginative) representations such as multi-image panels or, heaven forbid, field studio photographs. Well that has just changed. … Continue reading
Field studio birds, 3. NB
How hard can it be to get the 4 metres from my office to the hide in my garden to photograph small birds in the field studio? Much harder than it reasonably should be if the last 3 weeks of … Continue reading
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Tagged field studio, garden birds, Meet your Neighbours, Niall Benvie, robin, Scotland, tree sparrow, white background
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Field studio blue tit (again). NB
For whatever reasons, the blue tits are being more cooperative on set than any of the other species I’m trying to photograph in my garden field studio. Tree sparrows (for overseas readers, Passer montanus was once a common farmland bird … Continue reading
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Tagged backlit, bird, blue tit, diffusers, field studio, garden, Niall Benvie, outdoor flash, photography, white, white background
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Field studio birds – a start. NB
It’s been a slow start, but at last I’m making a little headway with photographing small birds in the field studio in our garden. Most species have shown an extraordinary reluctance to sit on the perches I provide – preferring … Continue reading
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Tagged blue tit, diffusion, field studio, Flyweight for photography, Lumedyne, Meet your Neighbours, Niall Benvie
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Naturalife Magazine Numero 3. PHD
Some time ago, editor Alessandro Guadenzi got in touch with me through a very good friend and superb photographer Leo Battista. The result is a feature “My Italy” in the latest edition. It is a lovely magazine – a labour … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Conservation, Italian Life, Meet Your Neighbours
Tagged Alessandro Guadenzi, garden, insects, Italy, myn, Naturalife Magazine, wildlife
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Biodiversity recording for NGO’s. NB
The increasing trend amongst NGO’s, highlighted by a colleague recently, to use staff or volunteers to provide images for their publications more often than not ends up compromising them. That may sound sweeping but a glance at any number of … Continue reading
Field studio techniques – the full story. NB.
Since I first posted “Field Studio flowers” in the early days of the blog in 2009, it has attracted even more traffic than Paul’s wide angle macro posts (so far, anyway!) During that time I have continued to refine the … Continue reading
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Tagged Benbo trekker, biodiversity begins at home, bugs, Challoner, composite images, diffuser, diffusers, Elinchrom Ranger Quadra, envelope stiffener, field studio, field studio flowers, flash, flower, flowers on a white background, Flyweight, highlight recovery, insect, invertebrates, lexan, Lightroom 4, Lightroom process versions, Lumedyne, Makrolon, manfrotto studio accessories, Meet your Neighbours, Niall Benive, Phottix Strato II, reflectors, Rotalux softbox, set, Smart Objects, strobe, white background
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WildPhotos 2012 – a view from the inside. PHD
There is always a sense of temporal dislocation when I return to Britain for a while and then come back home–to Italy. As well as the usual round of family visits, our sojourn this time included WildPhotos 2012 where I … Continue reading →