Sunday afternoon was, thankfully, sunny and (reasonably…) warm for our NWT Beginners Photography Workshop.<\/p>\n
Once I’d found everyone near the entrance to the Druridge Bay visitor centre, we walked through to the feeding station hide at East Chevington.\u00a0 Reed Buntings, Goldfinches, Blue Tits<\/strong><\/em> and Great Tits<\/strong><\/em> were around the feeders, some remarkably shy Pheasants<\/strong><\/em> were quite stunning in the sunlight and we covered the usual beginners workshop topics of shutter speed, aperture settings, ISO, histograms, exposure compensation, and how to attract wildlife close enough to your camera.\u00a0 Then an opportunity that really doesn’t come along every day as Joan spotted a Stoat<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 I started pishing and it popped back up briefly, sitting on a rock for just long enough to allow a few frames to be fired off \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Colin’s shot of the Stoat<\/strong><\/em> was a great one to demonstrate how cropping can improve the composition of an image.\u00a0 A Great Spotted Woodpecker<\/strong><\/em> was sitting high above the feeding station, frustratingly not coming down low enough to be in front of the array of cameras (Nikon, Canon, Fuji and Sony).\u00a0 Then, one of the perpetual drawbacks of wildlife photography on a public nature reserve…the Pheasants<\/strong><\/em> scattered, all of the small birds left the feeders and a Black Labrador ran through the edge of the reeds \ud83d\ude41 All it needed was a few minutes after the dog had gone though, and all returned to normal \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday afternoon was, thankfully, sunny and (reasonably…) warm for our NWT Beginners Photography Workshop. Once I’d found everyone near the entrance to the Druridge Bay visitor centre, we walked through to the feeding station hide at East Chevington.\u00a0 Reed Buntings, Goldfinches, Blue Tits and Great Tits were around the feeders, some remarkably shy Pheasants were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[46,103,25,45,504,127,183],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-photography","tag-blue-tit","tag-goldfinch","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-great-tit","tag-pheasant","tag-reed-bunting","tag-stoat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","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=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}