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A Tufted Puffin tucks its orange and yellow beak behind its wing as it preens.
Written by Mod Fam on March 1, 2020

Best Stock Photo Sites – Birds

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Best Stock Photo Sites: A close-up macro photo of the bright orange legs of a seagull at New Zealand's St. Clair beach, South Island, near Dunedin.
A Seagull sits on a fence at St. Clair, New Zealand’s waterfront
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A blackbird sits among colorful pink and white magnolia blooms at Dunedin, New Zealand's botanic gardens.
A small bird sits on a branch of a magnolia tree in bloom in Dunedin, New Zealand’s Botanic Gardens
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A Tufted Puffin tucks its orange and yellow beak behind its wing as it preens.
A Tufted Puffin on the Oregon Coast, USA
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A Tufted Puffin tucks its orange and yellow beak behind its wing as it preens.
A Tufted Puffin on the Oregon Coast, USA
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Best Stock Photo Sites: Coastal birds sit on a cable or wire connected to a small thatched-roof shack in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Isla Mujeres, near Cancún in the Yucatán Peninsula.
Coastal birds sit on a cable near Isla Mujeres, Mexico
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Best Stock Photo Sites: Coastal birds sit on a cable or wire connected to a small thatched-roof shack in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Isla Mujeres, near Cancún in the Yucatán Peninsula.
Coastal birds sit on a cable near Isla Mujeres, Mexico
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How to Photograph Birds

Manual Settings – ISO

Birds move quickly, and do not sit motionless for very long. Even with great light conditions, you’ll want to adjust your ISO and other camera settings for very fast speeds to minimize motion and blur. Try starting with ISO800 to 2,000 and adjust from there. Whenever possible, I prefer lower ISO, because the image is more crisp and has less visual noise and grain in the final shot. Under low light conditions, though, a higher ISO is unavoidable. D-SLR cameras have come a long way in reducing visual noise and the grain in images at much higher ISOs than traditional film. Ideally, though, I like to use ISO settings as low as ISO400 or 320 for the clearest bird images.


Best Stock Photo Sites: A curious black bird approaches the camera in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula.
A curious bird in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A curious black bird approaches the camera in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula.
A curious bird in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A curious black bird approaches the camera in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula.
A curious bird in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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Manual Settings – Aperture

The second setting to consider when photographing birds is your aperture. Remember that the smaller the aperture (f4.5, f5.6), the larger the opening and shallower depth of field. The image below, with a shallow depth of field, has an aperture setting around f5.6. Using a telephoto lens at around 300mm, this aperture setting creates the blurred background, while ensuring that the entire bird is in focus. Be careful not to open your aperture too much, though, because it’s easy to narrow the depth of field so much that parts of the bird are out of focus.

Manual Settings – Macro Photography

If you are shooting macro photography or trying to capture a close-up of a bird’s eye or feathers, you may want to create that effect, as I did with the images above. But for a photo like the pigeon below, a balance of a lower aperture around f7.1 (with a wider opening and narrow depth of field) will give you a clear, crisp image of the bird with a nicely blurred background, or bokeh.


Best Stock Photo Sites: A colorful pidgeon stands on a wooden railing at Newport, Oregon, USA.
A pidgeon stands on a wooden railing in Newport, Oregon, USA
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A hummingbird flies to drink from a red feeder.  The bird's colorful wings contrast against a dark background in the mountains of Idaho, USA.
A hummingbird drinks from a red feeder in Central Idaho, USA
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A hummingbird flies to drink from a red feeder.  The bird's colorful wings contrast against a dark background in the mountains of Idaho, USA.
A hummingbird drinks from a red feeder in Central Idaho, USA
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Manual Settings – Shutter Speed

When photographing birds, your shutter speed is another of the three factors that control the amount of light exposing the image, and how quickly the shutter opens and shuts. Too slow, and the image will be washed out and overexposed. Too fast, and the image will be dark and lose much of the visual detail of an evenly exposed image. The type of image you are trying to create will also impact your settings and shutter speed. If you are trying to create a dark, moody image and expose for the brightest part of a bird’s wing, you might speed up the shutter speed. If you want to create a bright, lively image and blow out the background a bit to frame your subject, you can slow the shutter speed a bit.


Best Stock Photo Sites: A hummingbird sits on an electrical wire.  The bird's colorful feathers contrast against a dark background in the mountains of Idaho, USA.
Bird on a wire: a hummingbird sits on an electrical wire in Central Idaho, USA
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A colorful blue feather sits on the ground in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon, USA.
A colorful blue feather in Oregon’s Eagle Cap Wilderness
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A curious seagull looks at the camera while tilting its head at New Zealand's St. Clair beach and waterfront, on New Zealand's South Island near Dunedin, Otago.
A Seagull sits on a fence at New Zealand’s St. Clair beach and waterfront
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A curious seagull looks at the camera while tilting its head at New Zealand's St. Clair beach and waterfront, on New Zealand's South Island near Dunedin, Otago.
A Seagull sits on a fence at New Zealand’s St. Clair beach and waterfront
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Best Stock Photo Sites: A curious seagull looks at the camera while tilting its head at New Zealand's St. Clair beach and waterfront, on New Zealand's South Island near Dunedin, Otago.
A Seagull sits on a fence at New Zealand’s St. Clair beach and waterfront
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A white Snowy Egret in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula.
A Snowy Egret in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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A white Snowy Egret in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula.
A Snowy Egret in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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An albatross flies over the harbour near New Zealand's Otago Peninsula, on New Zealand's South Island near Dunedin, Otago.
An albatross flies over the harbour near New Zealand’s Otago Peninsula
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