{"id":9719,"date":"2025-06-01T18:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9719"},"modified":"2025-06-01T18:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:41:53","slug":"garden-birds-feeding-taken-with-a-fish-eye-lens-from-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9719","title":{"rendered":"Garden birds feeding: Taken with a fish-eye lens from below"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camera (in a food box) looking up with the remote trigger system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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This shows the camera looking up protected by a large filter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I’ve enjoyed using this setup and will continue experimenting to improve the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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: Next I show the setup. The camera … Continue reading “Garden birds feeding: Taken with a fish-eye lens from below”<\/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":[99,19,52,24,3,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-close-up","category-garden","category-nature","category-photography","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","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=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9732,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}