{"id":6459,"date":"2021-04-04T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2021-04-04T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T14:31:28","slug":"birds-in-the-garden-5from7photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6459","title":{"rendered":"Birds in the garden: #5from7photo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I prefer to photograph wildlife from a closer perspective enabling the background to be seen – for me this adds context to a photo. You see so many photos taken with a long telephoto lens which blurs the background and loses context – they could have been taken anywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year I built a DIY motion detection camera setup; this week I started using it again. I have had some success along with some failures – here are 5 of them taken from a corner of our garden that looks across a farmland:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two sparrows looking like they are having an argument<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I call this ‘The Lookout’. I just love the iridescent plumage<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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… and its front view<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A failure: The farmer was spraying his field triggering the motion detection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another failure: I get plenty of photos where the bird is near the edge of the frame, or you can’t see enough of it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I prefer to photograph wildlife from a closer perspective enabling the background to be seen – for me this adds context to a photo. You see so many photos taken with a long telephoto lens which blurs the background and loses context – they could have been taken anywhere. Last year I built a DIY … Continue reading “Birds in the garden: #5from7photo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,99,24,3,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5from7photo","category-birds","category-nature","category-photography","category-staffordshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}