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Top 5 Photo Tips From Professional Wildlife Photographer Marie Read

Wildlife photographer and nature writer Marie Read offers five tips on improving your own wildlife photographs both in the field and in your backyard.

Widely published, Read’s images have appeared in magazines, books, calendars, websites, and product packaging. She is the author of Secret Lives of Common Birds: Enjoying Bird Behavior Through the Seasons (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

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Tips and Techniques for Photographing Woodland Birds

Learn insider tips and tricks from a professional wildlife photographer on how to photograph woodland birds. The video provides a wealth of knowledge for both the novice and wildlife photography enthusiast including creating baited areas to attract birds, establishing a camera “hide”, lens types, background selection, and even photo samples. The video focuses on capturing images of great spotted woodpeckers in their natural environment, but the techniques provided could be used anywhere to photograph wildlife.

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