{"id":810,"date":"2008-04-26T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:27:35","slug":"useless-bird-photography-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Useless bird photography tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Tip #1: If you find yourself lacking in either good equipment, skill or interesting and flamboyant birds to photograph, it always helps to take pics of birds in places one isn&#8217;t used to seeing them. This will make up for your lack of skill, somewhat. Maybe. Probably not.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SBKZVsJdG_I\/AAAAAAAABaU\/Z143S1bQzK4\/s800-h\/sandyrobin.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193381918218722290\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/sandyrobin-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Example #1: Robins belong on grassy lawns or in muddy nests, not sandy beaches. The odd habitat distracts the viewer from the less than stellar exposure and the soft focus from your long lens that is sooo darn slow.<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SBKZDcJdG-I\/AAAAAAAABaM\/Xe9klNZPgfw\/s800-h\/treedtowhee.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193381604686109666\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/treedtowhee-199x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Example #2: Eastern towhees should be skulking on the ground in leaf-strewn forests or scratching around beneath blooming beach plum bushes or in poison ivy tangles. They are almost never seen perched in trees. This from-below view is interesting for its novelty and may keep the viewer from noticing the poor composition and soft focus of your photo.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: Tips for taking pics of any bird that sits still long enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip #1: If you find yourself lacking in either good equipment, skill or interesting and flamboyant birds to photograph, it always helps to take pics of birds in places one isn&#8217;t used to seeing them. This will make up for your lack of skill, somewhat. Maybe. Probably not. Example #1: Robins belong on grassy lawns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Useless bird photography tips<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,2,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}