A new video - about a very tiny adjustment that can make quite a difference to your images

It's great to be back behind the lens again I've really missed it! Today I'm heading to Mallacoota, a remote small town on the far north eastern corner of Victoria for a couple of weeks - there's lots of Robins there in winter, here's a few I snapped on a previous trip: Flame Robin Scarlet Robin Rose-breasted Robin

Sitting in the airport hotel on the eve of my trip, very exciting! I haven’t done a lot of overseas travel but this is my second trip to Bali - this time heading to a small island 40mins by fast boat. Hoping to find some birds of course! Here’s a couple of shots from my last trip, a gorgeous Coppersmith Barbet and the poster bird of Bali, the Balinese Myna 😍

Here's a little magic trick for you when photographing birds on wires - and don't Robins love a wire! 😉 If you can sidle up into a position where the wire is almost perpendicular in front of you, using a wide open aperture (lowest number f stop - I used f4.5), and by focusing right on the bird, the shallow depth of field can alllllmost make the wire disappear at either end, so your bird is hovering nicely in the middle - I think it looks pretty cool! It's a way of minimising the presence of the wire and keeping the focus on the bird 💫