Backyard Bird Photography and Beyond

Learn how to get great bird photographs at home and anywhere else in the world you may go. Join Rick Sammon as he shares over 250 tips, tricks, and techniques on photography, wildlife, and Photoshop to help you create the best bird photographs of your life. Bird photography can be challenging, but the bigger the challenge the bigger the reward, and after learning from Rick you’ll be prepared to photograph birds in any location.

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Rick Sammon

Release Date: 2021-02-04

Lessons

Introduction

Join Rick as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.

Duration: 3 mins 14 seconds

Top 11 Quick Tips

Rick shares how the course is broken down into six parts before jumping into part 1 on quick tips.

Duration: 10 mins 49 seconds

Backyard Bird Photography Basics

Rick goes through the basics of getting your backyard photography off the ground.

Duration: 11 mins 5 seconds

Photographing Around Ponds

Learn how to set goals, anticipate action, and ISO settings.

Duration: 13 mins 11 seconds

Lakeside Photography

In this lesson, Rick uses the lakeside setting as a way to discuss exposure and composition.

Duration: 6 mins 51 seconds

Wildlife and Raptor Center Photos

In this lesson Rick discusses photographing in controlled settings.

Duration: 6 mins 35 seconds

What Went Wrong and Quick Fixes

It helps to learn from your mistakes so you can avoid them in the future or know how to correct them afterwards.

Duration: 6 mins 22 seconds

Conclusion

Rick wraps up the class with some closing thoughts to help you move forward.

Duration: 1 mins 7 seconds