Category: #nature

Garden birds feeding: Taken with a fish-eye lens from below

I like to try unusual viewpoints for my photography. For this small project I wanted to photograph garden birds from below using a fish-eye lens for depth-of-field and ensuring I get everything in. Below I show some of the results, some of which I think are quite amusing:

Adult and juvenile starlings at the coconut and suet feeder
Two juvenile starlings looking in the same direction
Two juvenile starlings begging for food from an adult
Three juvenile starlings looking at the feeder
A single juvenile starling at the feeder with other birds waiting at the top of the trellis
A starling flying in to try and get at the feeder
An adult starling feeding a juvenile
An adult starling coming in to land with a second one already on the branch
A juvenile starling flying off while another feeds

Next I show the setup. The camera and lens sits in a plastic food box. There is also a remote trigger system which is also housed in plastic food boxes:

Camera (in a food box) looking up with the remote trigger system
This shows the camera looking up protected by a large filter

I’ve enjoyed using this setup and will continue experimenting to improve the results.