{"id":2467,"date":"2014-07-02T13:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2014-07-02T13:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:25:19","slug":"farne-islands-beginners-photography-workshop-28062014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/farne-islands-beginners-photography-workshop-28062014","title":{"rendered":"Farne Islands; Beginners Photography Workshop 28\/06\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday afternoon was our Farne Islands<\/a> Beginners Photography workshop<\/a>.\u00a0 I picked Peter up from Eshott as I headed north, and we met up with Doug at Seahouses<\/strong> harbour.\u00a0 This was Peter’s fourth trip this week (on his birthday, following his North Pennines trip<\/a> on Friday – his wedding anniversary!).\u00a0 Doug had been out with me before too, on our Coastal Dawn photography workshop<\/a> in March, although the weather was a bit more amenable this time round \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Settings for wildlife and action photography are very different to the settings for extracting a landscape image from the gloom of an early spring morning, so I ran through the settings on Doug’s camera with my recommendations for how to improve his chances of catching ‘the moment’.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the greatest skill a photographer needs on Inner Farne<\/strong> is the ability to tune out the chaos that surrounds them.\u00a0 Common<\/strong><\/em> and Arctic Terns<\/strong><\/em> form an angry buzzing cloud around the heads of visitors to the island, the harsh calls of Sandwich Terns<\/strong><\/em> cut through you as they fly to and from their colony, Puffins<\/strong> <\/em>shoot by with beakfuls of sandeels<\/strong><\/em>, so close that you can feel the rush of air from their wingbeats and the clifftops are covered in Shags<\/strong><\/em>, Kittiwakes<\/strong><\/em>, Razorbills<\/strong> <\/em>and Guillemots <\/strong><\/em>as Fulmars <\/strong><\/em>soar by on stiff outstretched wings.\u00a0 Around the Puffin<\/strong> <\/em>burrows, groups of Black-headed Gulls<\/strong><\/em> sit and wait for the return of what should, on the face of it, be an easy meal.\u00a0 It doesn’t always work out that way though, and the melee provides excellent photo opportunities.\u00a0 That chaos is the Farne Islands<\/strong> strength as a location for our photography workshops though.\u00a0 The wildlife is approachable and obliging, so it’s a great place to concentrate on learning, and practicing, new photography techniques.<\/p>\n

\"Arctic<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sandwich<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Razorbill,Alca<\/a><\/p>\n

We’ve still got a few spaces available for our Farne Islands photography workshop<\/a> this Saturday (July 5th), so give us a call on 01670 827465 if you’d like to come along \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday afternoon was our Farne Islands Beginners Photography workshop.\u00a0 I picked Peter up from Eshott as I headed north, and we met up with Doug at Seahouses harbour.\u00a0 This was Peter’s fourth trip this week (on his birthday, following his North Pennines trip on Friday – his wedding anniversary!).\u00a0 Doug had been out with me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,5,16],"tags":[230,271,229,122,835,186,225,226,223,377],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-farnes","category-northumberland","category-photography","tag-arctic-tern","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-common-tern","tag-fulmar","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-shag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}