Photographing birds in flight can be uniquely challenging. Fast and unpredictable, ensuring pin point focus on a bird in flight requires patience, practice, and good technique. Tony presents several strategies, settings, and techniques for ensuring tack sharp birds in flight images.

Photographing birds is more than just the typical “bird on a stick” image. Capturing birds in their most impactful moments requires timing, readiness and patience. Doing so ethically also requires the photographer to put the animal before the shot. Tony shares his insights on such topics in this talk.

Living in New England, Tony’s photographic roots can be found photography sunrises and sunsets along somewhere along the coast. Creating impactful coastal images is more than just showing up. It demands proper planning, excellent technique, quick field adjustments, and a delicate touch in post processing. Tony discusses that, and more, in this presentation.

In this presentation on Landscape photography, Tony reviews basic compositional techniques, explores more advanced techniques, and talks about the photographers responsibility to create images in which the composition demands the viewer to experience the image just the way the photographer designed it.

All too often a great capture of a bird in the field is ruined by poor post processing. The editing of wild birds in Lightroom requires a light, but confident touch, one that celebrates the bird while not discounting its habitat. Tony runs through his typical workflow for culling, managing, and post processing bird images captured after a day in the field.

You spend a morning out in the field taking images to bring back to your computer to process only to realize too late that you can’t do what you want in Lightroom. Too often photographers think the post processing process starts at upload, but in reality it begins in the field. In this presentation, Tony talks about how your work in the field helps you refine your Lightroom workflow.

Processing images in Lightroom can be a challenge. Knowing which elements to toggle and how they will impact your final image can be difficult. Further, the development of a reliable, simple, and effective workflow can make the sometimes drudgery of post processing a pleasant process and help you publish a more compelling and impactful image.

In a world obsessed with zooming in to the bird, in this presentation, Tony takes a step back and shares why leaving the bird (or animal in some cases) smaller in the scene may tell a more compelling story, result in a more impactful image, and remind others to respect an animal’s space and habitat.