The First artcile i read was titled "On the wing". What it was about is how to get good bird shots. The photographer writing this article was big into staging things.I did pick up some pretty nifty tricks, but i could never see myself putting as much work into taking pictures of birds like he does.
He gave advice about how he took a picture of a kingfisher. They are a really shy bird and it is really tricky getting a good shot of them. So what he did was set up a blind and let it sit there for three days. They he also went out into the pond that the kingfisher was fishing in and set a poll up. He attached a perch to this poll. He was still having problems getting the kingfisher to use the perch so he bought a kiddie pool and put minows in it. He then ran into the problem of the kingfisher eating all the minows before the lightning was right. So he then attached a piece of fabric over the top of the kiddie pool that he could remove by pulling some fishing line when the lightning was right. That seems like alot of work just to get a picture of a kingfisher to me.
Next he goes on to explain how to get a good hummingbird picture. For this what he did was set up a feeder to get the birds to come, then he would set up about six flashes, putting some on the bird, some coming down on top of the bird and two on his background. For the background he would set a print of blurred out greenery he would then light it. The biggest challenge with taking a picture of a humming bird is to get their wings in focus since they flap so fast. So by using all the flashes he could get enough light so that he could use a fast shutter speed on them and still have the background bright and the details of the bird bright.
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