How To Take Better Photos Of Your Chickens

[Tonyroo]

These are invaluable tips and tricks and your pictures are STUNNING! View attachment 2328632

I wish my phone could do this!

Glad you all learned something!!!

Have you all been project managers all this time? I just noticed right now. Geez I'm not very observant.

 

[K0k0shka]

Very helpful thread, thank you for the tips!

One tip I can add, along the lines of checking and cleaning your lens. If your phone has a screen protector, make sure it's not obscuring the lens. I got a new screen protector for my phone - a thin glass one, as opposed to the clear plastic I used to get - and the opening cut into it for the selfie camera was a little too tight around the lens - it was about exactly the size of the lens, no leeway. So the edges of the hole were creating a halo effect on the photos that took me FOREVER to figure out! I kept cleaning and cleaning and blowing on it, but couldn't get rid of the damn halo. The hole was collecting dust and stuff around the inside edges, too. Now I need to look for a new screen protector - one that leaves more room around the lens.

My dSLR's focus broke a few years ago, and I haven't been able to justify replacing it yet (those things are expensive!) So I'm very sad that I'm stuck with just a phone camera for now. Even with the dSLR though, I always hated photographing children and animals, because they never stop moving! You need to have the perfect light conditions to get a clear shot of a moving target, otherwise they come out out of focus. My phone's camera is much better at handling low light without long exposures, and preserving (most of) the sharpness of the image. Not as good as a real camera, but the real camera fails miserably under these non-ideal conditions, so... the phone wins.

 

[R2elk]

My dSLR's focus broke a few years ago, and I haven't been able to justify replacing

Contact the manufacturer about repairing it. It will cost but not as much as replacing it and you will typically get a short warranty with the repair.

 

[Weeg]

I’ve literally built platforms for horses to stand on to be able to get the right shot

Wow! This is great info! I noticed you said horses, and am assuming there your horses, I am would if you like to show some of your photo taking skills and enter your horses in my online horse show! Its in the poultry show forum! Its the only horse show! I also have a waterfall competition going for anyone with ducks, geese, swans, etc. Would love to see some of you there! Especially with your new photo taking expertise!

 

[BGcoop]

Great tips, thank you! (Too bad it’s the middle of the night or I’d be out by the birds now)

 

[Weeg]

Great tips, thank you! (Too bad it’s the middle of the night or I’d be out by the birds now)

I am jealous of your profile pic! Is that your chicken, he is pretty! I have always wanted an Ayam Cemani, but I don't have to room, or need for more then the 15 chickens, plus 9 ducks I already have! Lol!

 

[Daisycar]

Thank you @jolenesdad for the precious tips!!!

 

[BDutch]

Thanks Jolenesdad, you’re post would do great as an article too.

Special effects?
Against you’re rules but sometimes fun to do: too much of something.
Do you know the Milka brand for chocolate bars?

After. I (quickly) adjusted to 1/3, the light and used a purple filter to create a milka bull:

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Have you all been project managers all this time? I just noticed right now. Geez I'm not very observant.

You're actually quite observant because it's a new development for jolenesdad, SnapdragonQ, and I.
casportpony has been for some time though, lol.

 

[R2elk]

Thanks Jolenesdad, you’re post would do great as an article too.

Special effects?
Against you’re rules but sometimes fun to do: too much of something.
Do you know the Milka brand for chocolate bars? View attachment 2344799

After. I (quickly) adjusted to 1/3, the light and used a purple filter to create a milka bull:
View attachment 2344794

One problem, it isn't a bull. Bulls don't have udders.