Wild Studio Series: The Art of Wildlife Photograph - Birds

A Unique Wildlife Photography Experience

Guests of this workshop will be lucky enough to photohgraph 2 of Australia's engaged Black Cockatoos "Captain & Jet" and a stunning Macaw "Harry".

Throughout the session, attendees will experience three different approaches to wildlife photography:

Wildlife Portraits

Explore how Brett approaches creating striking animal portraits, including understanding your subject, composition, lighting and the technical decisions that help create memorable images.

Conservation Portraits

Learn how wildlife photography can tell a larger story by combining animals, people and environment.

Working alongside animal keepers, attendees will see how conservation stories are created through portraiture, similar to the work seen across wildlife ambassadors and conservation campaigns.

Birds In Flight

Put your skills to the test as Brett demonstrates the challenges of photographing movement, anticipation, autofocus and timing while capturing birds in flight.

Lighting & Equipment

This workshop will feature Nanlite lighting setups, showing how artificial light can be used creatively for bird and conservation portraiture.

You’ll also see Sony Alpha cameras and lenses in action, with Brett breaking down the autofocus, lens and camera settings he relies on when photographing both controlled portraits and moving subjects.

Who Is This Workshop For?

This workshop is ideal for:

• Bird photographers wanting to improve their approach
• Wildlife and nature photographers
• Sony photographers wanting to understand professional autofocus workflows
• Portrait photographers interested in animal and conservation imagery
• Anyone wanting more experience photographing birds in a controlled environment
• You do not need to be an experienced bird photographer.
• If you want to get better at photographing birds, understand their behaviour and create stronger images with more purpose, this workshop is designed to give you plenty to work with.

• How professional wildlife photographers approach photographing unpredictable subjects
• The importance of understanding animal behaviour and creating ethical images
• How to use composition, light and timing to create stronger wildlife photographs
• How to approach environmental and conservation storytelling
• How to work with fast-moving subjects and challenging conditions
• How Brett uses Sony Alpha cameras and lenses in professional wildlife photography
• Studio Lighting thanks to Nanlight

• Camera
• Lens 
• Memory Card
• Charged batteries 
• Sony will be providing loan equipment available on the day, please ensure you bring a suitable Memory Card if you wish to use an Alpha Camera. We will have a large range of lens available with focus lengths suitable for the workshop.