9 tips for seabird colony photography

Wonderful video Scott. I liked when you talk about to not stress birds and get back. And lovely photos you took. So far I saw and photographed only puffins, but not razorbills and gannets. I hope next time I'll go in UK. Take care!!

What a great session mate , you got some ripper shots. Thoroughly enjoyed it and the tips were super useful as well. Have a nice week Scott!👍👍

Thoroughly enjoyed this one, clearly a lot of thought, time and effort put into it, and it's given me some ideas, thank you!

Good video, cracking images.

Nice to meet you Scott. Andy here.!Some good tips there. I’ve been a few times now and I’m always looking for different shots as I’ve got loads of similar ones. My fear of heights doesn’t help though, I need the barriers to calm me down a bit.!!

Perfect timing Scott!. Fantastic video as usual too!

This episode brought back happy memories as I first went there as a Birthday treat to photograph the Puffins. I've only been twice but looking forward to returning some day.
Living on the west coast, I get nothing but sunsets. 😀

Cheers

Nice one, great Vlog, you have really got my juices going, I’m heading there next week, I can’t wait. Did you see the Albatross

great advice and some lovely images.

Thanks for the great tips on exposure in this wonderful enjoyable video Scott and those images off yours are beautiful !!!

What a wonderful lesson. You have truly shown so much in this one. I learned some things and totally enjoyed the entire video from both a bird lover perspective and a learner of photography. Thank you so much.

Nice video

Great video Scott, what a brilliant place Bemptom Cliffs are. I go every year and I'm so looking forward to getting back there. All the best, Steve.

Absolutely fascinating episode, Scott. What a fantastic location, your images are stunning. I always learn so much from your lessons and walk away so inspired. Great video, Thank you.

Very nice video Scott. As an experienced bird photographer, I am surprised how much I learned from your video. I live in Singapore so don't have a clue for popular sites to photograph these fantastic sea birds. Any suggestions where I can find needed information please?

Lovely set of tips Scott and nice to see some different approaches to photographing the location and birds. I can imagine that most photographers where firing off hundreds of shots at eye level. Very comprehensive mate and leaves me with a problem of what angle to cover when I get up there to do my video😂 All the best Scott

Hi Scott. Nice primer to get me thinking ahead of my forthcoming visit. I’m going back for a week and am really looking forward to it. Been there once before and it’s brilliant. With black and white birds I find getting the exposure right is always a challenge (keeping detail in the darks whilst not blowing out the highlights), especially in bright light. Predominately dark birds are fine and I will ETTR there but I must admit that with birds such as puffins with as much white as black I normally err on the side of keeping detail in the highlights. Personally I don’t find the histogram that useful unless the bird is big in the frame, preferring instead to take a test shot, review with blinkies enabled and adjust the exposure accordingly. There, I said the video has got me thinking so thanks for that, really useful.

Thank you for showing pictures and showing the background area and not just talking in a room

Great video looks a beautiful place no cliffs where I live guess I’ll have to start travelling I’m on north Norfolk coast is a small cliff at Hunstanton with some common gull but not much more And there is also a fence to stop you getting near the edge as people have jumped off which is not good I did see a peregrine falcon there was hunting pigeons unfortunately I never had my Long lens now I carry everywhere thanks for sharing A great video. ❤

Another great video and as usual some great tips picked up. I like to gradually watch each of your videos rather than many at once. Thankyou Scott

Hi Scott, I live on Vancouver Island, this video is absolutely stuffed with valuable information for me. Thanks so much for sharing. Cheers Gord

You should of turned your camera inland at sunset when the cliffs go into shade. and photographed the barn owls.

Díky!

Great content. Which lens do you recommend in such locations?

Great video, Scott. I'm really enjoying your insights on photographing the natural world. Here in Homer, Alaska, we have both the Tufted and Horned Puffin. I haven't attempted to grab a shot of them onshore, only in flight (so dang fast!). I shoot a Canon 5D iv and was wondering which AF you use on birds which are on the ground and inflight? Thank you, Scott.

Thank you for this video. I'm off to Bempton later this month and your video has helped a great deal. Bookmarked for future use.

Great stuff, very useful. I have recently been to Lunga. It was an transformative experience. .