{"id":19681,"date":"2020-11-11T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?p=19681"},"modified":"2021-02-24T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:12:57","slug":"december-8-2020-education-training-bird-photography-with-bill-corbett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/december-8-2020-education-training-bird-photography-with-bill-corbett\/","title":{"rendered":"December 8, 2020: Education &#038; Training &#8211; Bird Photography with Bill Corbett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bill-Corbett-bio-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19057 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bill-Corbett-bio-pic-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bill-Corbett-bio-pic-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bill-Corbett-bio-pic-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bill-Corbett-bio-pic.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Bird photography is for everyone interested in the wildlife, beauty, and light that can be found just outside your kitchen window or far beyond.&nbsp; Bill\u2019s presentation will detail photography of birds at rest and in flight, for all levels of interest and expertise, from beginner to advanced.<\/p>\n<p>Bill\u2019s illustrated presentation will cover five topics, with each discussed in terms of the basics and how to move up a learning curve.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Equipment: &nbsp;From using a point and shoot superzoom to handling big glass on a gimbal head.<\/li>\n<li>Exposure: &nbsp;Three words &#8212; Shoot in manual. &nbsp;Three more words &#8212; Expose for highlights.<\/li>\n<li>Autofocus: &nbsp;Luck favors the prepared. &nbsp;&#8220;Spray and pray&#8221; favors those who know and use various features offered by their camera&#8217;s autofocus.<\/li>\n<li>Craft: &nbsp;&#8220;Sun and wind behind&#8221; is one of a number of well-known strategies for bird photographers to arrive at better opportunities, and to come away with better images.<\/li>\n<li>Setups: &nbsp;Feeders + flashes = fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Bill\u2019s presentation can be viewed here: <a href=\"\/presentations\/BillCorbettonBirdPhotography-NVPSPresentationofDecember82020-compressed.pdf\">BillCorbettonBirdPhotography-NVPSPresentationofDecember82020-compressed.pdf<\/a> (Username and Password required.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hope you can make it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Summer-Hummer-2020-2-by-Bill-Corbett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19679 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Summer-Hummer-2020-2-by-Bill-Corbett-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Summer-Hummer-2020-2-by-Bill-Corbett-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Summer-Hummer-2020-2-by-Bill-Corbett-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Summer-Hummer-2020-2-by-Bill-Corbett-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Summer-Hummer-2020-2-by-Bill-Corbett.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>Bill Corbett is a bird and travel photographer who enjoys color, action and texture in his pictures.&nbsp; A photojournalist in college, Bill resumed spending serious amounts of time on photography when digital cameras came along.&nbsp; He is a Nikon shooter who prefers a long lens and who uses a flash anytime he can. Bill enjoys competing his images at NVPS and making albums from pictures he and his wife Judy take on their travels.<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Judy moved three summers ago to southern Loudoun from McLean, where they raised their three kids.&nbsp; He is still just beginning to explore the photo opportunities in Loudoun and west of there.&nbsp;&nbsp; They spend most of the summer in Delaware, where Bill takes his camera to wildlife refuges regularly. &nbsp;His main photography goal is to keep on doing what he\u2019s been doing.&nbsp; It is fun.<\/p>\n<p>Bill is the secretary and a former president of Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions (formerly Nature Visions), a member of NVPS for the past ten or so years, and the winner of a small number of photography ribbons and awards from those two organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Bill is a retired foreign service officer and trade negotiator who served in Washington, Korea and Japan and enjoyed\/suffered through more than a few travels to other points as a minor representative of American diplomacy.&nbsp; Follow him on Facebook for his views on current events; he doesn\u2019t post his pictures there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Backlight-by-Bill-Corbett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19676\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Backlight-by-Bill-Corbett-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Backlight-by-Bill-Corbett-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Backlight-by-Bill-Corbett-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Backlight-by-Bill-Corbett-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Backlight-by-Bill-Corbett.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Collared-Aracari-by-Bill-Corbett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19677\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Collared-Aracari-by-Bill-Corbett-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Collared-Aracari-by-Bill-Corbett-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Collared-Aracari-by-Bill-Corbett-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Collared-Aracari-by-Bill-Corbett-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Collared-Aracari-by-Bill-Corbett.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker-by-Bill-Corbett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19678\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker-by-Bill-Corbett-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker-by-Bill-Corbett-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker-by-Bill-Corbett-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker-by-Bill-Corbett-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker-by-Bill-Corbett.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird photography is for everyone interested in the wildlife, beauty, and light that can be found just outside your kitchen window or far beyond.&nbsp; 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