robins view
A robin at its best
A robin at its best
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Oct, 2020Views
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Contender in the Photography Awards
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Spring 21 Award
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Location
I took this photo at Sandwell Valley Park in West Bromwich. I decided to grab my backpack and go for a wander around. I had captured a fair few images. When I Spotted this robin flying around looking for food or leaves. I'm not too sure, but I decided to try and follow it to see where it would go. It managed to escape me, but I already. I had my gear set up and ready—the Nikon 3200 with a microlens attachment ready for me to shoot my shot. I lined up the camera and lens adjusted my focal length and the reduced it just enough to keep this amazing robin in focus, and I already knew that I wanted to add depth of field to account for a vast amount of bookah to the scene.Time
This was taken during mid-afternoon and mid-evening usually a nice solid hour for a sunny stick a nice rich golden hour, but this was typical UK weather, so there was no sun but still great natural lighting for the shot I needed.Lighting
Natural Lighting really helped. Kept my white balance between 4000 - 5000. Giving me the most neural but natural look. The rest of the lighting came from mother nature and her beloved animals. Nature loves to pose and needs that keen eye to take the shot.Equipment
f2.8 200-300 microlens, Nikon 3200, Manfrotto TripodInspiration
I'm a beginner so I to use my time to practise and to improve my overall quality and learn as much as I can.Editing
I do all my Post Processing in lightroom. I will typically play around with the curves tool, A few tweaks in colour correction.In my camera bag
3 Tripods, 1 large Manfrotto, 1 Mini Manfrotto, Mini gorilla tripod (if I need to wrap the camera around a railing or stick it in a tree and wrap the arms to the tree branch and wait nearby with my Mobile and a shutter release button) A mobile phone cage for attaching the lens to my Phone ( anamorphic, Fisheye, Wide lens, Microlens, some adapters to allow me to use manual lens. Nikon 3200, 200 - 300 microlens, Nikon cool pics, A Mavic Air 2 with all its ND filters and A few more lens. I can't remember without looking. There's a lot more in that bag.Feedback
Be adventurous and explore your options. Don't forget to take risks they do pay off
