Love photographing birds (or just tired of loosing to bird photographs) -- check out this unique opportunity!
BIRDS IN FLIGHT WORKSHOP PLANNED FOR NEW ENGLAND PHOTOGRAPHERS
Ray Barlow is a wildlife photographer who lives in Ontario, Canada, and Ray has pretty much gone full-time pro animal/bird photographer. Additionally, Ray runs some really great raptor/bird photography workshops, but they have always been in Canada.
Ray has agreed to put on a workshop for folks in New England IF sufficient interest is shown. If folks click on the highlighted website below, it will take them directly to the information on the workshop we are planning, but in a nutshell, it will be held in central Massachusetts (exact location to be given to fully paid participants in plenty of time to plan their trips to the location) on Saturday, November 21, 2009, with a rain date of Sunday, November 22. There is a limit to the number of participants for this program, set at 14.
There will be several raptors flying that day - they are listed in the workshop writeup - and some time will also be given for some perching shots too. The workshop will also include some time spent on camera and lens setup prior to starting the shoot; techniques for focusing and following flying birds, etc, and a couple of hours of photoshop techniques on processing your images will be given, probably at the end of the day, but all the information potential attendees might want or need including the fee and how to pay it can be found in the website below.
They will have an extensive educational program for this BIF (birds in flight) shoot., including a 2 hour Photo-shop program designed to help you learn how to work with Raw files, and also cloning will be a big part of that seminar. When the raptors fly, they have their jessies / leather straps connected to their legs. With a few minutes in photo shop, we remove them to have the image look like a natural flight shot.
They will also work on some perched set ups, we can gather some mossy branches, fence posts etc, and perch the birds with some nice back grounds. Creating these environments and photographing our models in a static set-up is a lot of fun, producing some really cool images.
This program starts at 9 am on November 21st, and finish around 4 pm. Exact times for the flights, photo-shop etc. will depend on the weather, and we will likely make a game-time decision on that.
The falconer is a fellow named Brian Bradley. Brian has been doing falconry, and flight demonstrations for many years. He is proficient at controlling his birds, and creating an optimal scene for photographers.
If someone has a question, they MUST contact Ray himself via his email address or by telephone since only he has the full knowledge of all the aspects that he has planned for that day. His email address is: http://ca.mc1100.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=raymondjbarlow@yahoo.ca and if folks want to talk to Ray, his phone number is listed on the home page for his website, which is http://www.rayswildlife.com/ . Also, if a person want a phone call, they can email him their telephone number and a good time for him to call them, and he will be happy to call them on his dime so it won't cost a potential attendee anything for the call.
Obviously, Ray needs to attract enough people to the workshop to pay for the birds and their trainer; his own expenses for traveling down from Canada, etc, so if you are at all interested, please sign up or at least contact Ray for more information as soon as possible so we know whether to continue to promote the workshop or to (hopefully not!) cancel it. Folks also might poke around his website to see images taken from some of his other workshops; to read some good info on wildlife photograpy; and to learn more about the art of wildlife photography itself.
This is the direct link to the workshop info page here.
Raymond J Barlow 13 Sandra Crescent Grimsby Ontario Canada L3M 4Y8
Cell # 905 520 8853
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