
Learn how to become a better bird photographer from wildlife filmmaker Tim Laman during the Florida Birding and Nature Fest Oct. 17-20 in Apollo Beach. Tim is giving a two-part presentation Oct. 18. He is also the Oct. 19 keynote speaker during the festival.
Tim's workshops are aimed at beginner to moderately experienced bird photographers, but even veterans might gain some insights by learning how Tim approaches different situations in the field.
About the Oct. 18 Workshop
9-10:30 am: Birds, Camera, Action - Part 1
From setting up your camera in "Ready for Action" mode, to making the most of your autofocus system and exposure modes for different situations, Tim covers the fundamentals of successful bird photography.
10:30 am – 12:00 Birds, Camera, Action - Part 2
Building on Part 1, in this presentation Tim will elaborate further on managing exposure in various situations and share his tips for photographing birds in flight and getting creative with capturing birds in action.
About Tim
TIM LAMAN is a field biologist, wildlife photojournalist, and filmmaker. Since getting his Ph.D. from Harvard for pioneering research in Borneo’s rainforest canopy, his cameras have been his tools for telling the stories of rare and endangered wildlife and revealing some of earth’s wildest places.
He has photographed on all seven continents, and regularly travels to some of the most remote corners of the earth to explore and document poorly known species. He is most well-known for his long-term work on birds-of-paradise and orangutans. He has published 24 feature stories in National Geographic magazine, as well as worked on natural history films for National Geographic, the BBC and Netflix.
Tim’s work has garnered numerous awards, including the overall prize Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2016, a 1st place Nature Story from World Press Photo, and the North American Nature Photography Association’s “Nature Photographer of the Year.” Tim is a fellow of the Explorer’s Club and of the International League of Conservation Photographers, as well as the co-founder of the Birds-of-Paradise Project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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