My Creative Lens If it Moves I'll Shoot it "With a Canon"
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My name is David Rennie I am 46 years of age, married for 25 years, I have 3 children 9-21-24. I live in a small city called Mandurah in Western Australia 80kms south of Perth on the ocean. I sell cars for a living and have done so for 24 years. I love fishing have a small dingy and live 3 minutes from the river and 10 minutes from the ocean. I love Car and Motorcycle Racing and of late I am out on Saturday afternoons with my birds and chicks as my wife puts it. I started getting serious in 2006 after going to Phillip Island for the V8 Super Cars. My sister lent me her 350D and an old zoom lens and I just loved it. I received a 400D as a gift. I then started taking photos of my sons soccer games, these only last for a couple of months and then there was nothing. I loved things that moved so I started looking for fast moving objects and one thing lead to another and birds seemed the logical choice. They move fast and are a challenge of epic proportions. So that’s how all this started and the fun part will be seeing were it ends up.
My style is self taught I shoot in manual mode only and 98% of the time at 100 ISO at the lowest stop (2.8) and the fastest shutter speed. I shoot off the camera and only crop and do some minor exposure adjustments. I like to think my skill is in the lens not the computer. I do not have the monster lenses that are needed for Bird photography so I also consider my skill to get close to the birds part of my style. You know your invisible when they land on you! Well I can't take people pictures or landscapes but "If it Moves I'll Shoot it, with a Canon" is my trade mark. I look for the things you don't normally see, and I can spend hours watching for that one unique movement or smile, yes birds smile, they exercise, spit, laugh, talk, fight and argue just like us if your patient enough, so slow down that’s my style and when you think your going slow, slow down again, and see what’s really there, its not that you might, you will surprise yourself. There is so much out there to see through the lens that it would take 10,000 life times to photo. My logic is, stick to what you like until it feels like it is a chore, then look elsewhere, so if all you see here are birds then you know I’m still loving it. God Bless Dave
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