Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior

This is a wonderful book. If you’re interested in photographing birds using the extraordinary features of modern cameras, this is a clear, in-depth explanation of the choices to make in camera setups for best results.

Beautiful book, hope to learn good photography techniques for bird pictures.

Mastering Bird Photography is a rarity in the How-To nature photography book field. It delivers exactly what it promises. The content is well structured and to the point. Not a word, not a photo is wasted, irrelevant, or self-aggrandizing. EVERY photo (and they are all beautiful, by the way) is there to illustrate a specific technique/issue. I'm an intermediate amateur nature photographer and it met my needs perfectly. If you need to learn basic photography skills, are interested in the history/philosophy of nature photography, love diving deep into photo equipment specs or want to learn all there is to know about bird biology/behavior and species, then this is NOT the book for you. If you are a reasonably skilled beginner/intermediate nature photographer who wants to up your bird photography game, then buy this book! It's one of my personal Top Five How-To titles. This one deserves its Five Star rating.

This book is indeed masterful and beautiful but beware that it is now outdated; everything from the cameras used to equipment are not for those who have newer cameras. Especially for those with mirror less cameras but it’s still a valuable book that teaches the technique and artistry of bird photography.

A very well thought out book, easy to understand, yet covers the aspects in fine detail. Marie Read is a great photographer and author..

I gave this to a photographer who mostly photographs birds. He liked it a lot and said it had some good hints.

Full of detailed information and tips on bird photography. The author gives settings for Canon and Nikon, but my Sony has comparable settings so this wasn’t a big issue for me. The book was well written, and full of great photos. I bought it last year and just finished reading it again.

I downloaded the kindle sample. After reading it I couldn’t wait for this to come in. I’m going to get a spiral binding so it’s easier to use. It’s heavy and well put together. High quality paper and sharp photos. Great instructions, the best bird photography book I’ve found yet.

I've only started taking photographs of birds but I've been involved in photography for the last 20 years and I have read dozens of books on different photography subjects (it's my second book on birds). I was looking for a good book to get me started and inspired but I really wasn't looking for a book about the basics of photography and unfortunately many books dwell too much on the basics before getting to the nitty gritty. Not this one. It gets right into the subject matter with good detailed writing and comprehensive examples. Equipment, exposure, composition, panning, post processing workflow and creating a backyard setup. It's all here. I KNOW this book will take my bird photography to another level. It's thick and the information is dense and easy to understand. Most importantly, the photographs are excellent and some are downright stunning. Kudos to the writer for giving the technical details of each photograph (shutter speed, F stop, ISO, lens used, with tripod or not, with TC or not). I find this rare in so many books yet it's very useful for learning what to use and when. Very inspirational stuff. I would suggest any photography newbie to at least get the basics down before diving into this book. Learn how ISO, aperture and shutter speed are related and what they each do. Learn how the auto focus on your camera works as well. This will allow you to understand the specific details of how each picture was taken and enable you to do the same.

It was a bit too basic for me, maybe I had too high expectations? Some chapters are outdated fx about equipment, focusing (who uses DSLR nowadays?), should be updated or just left out. In short a bit of disappointment.

It's the very best book in photography I have evet read. It's a magnificent book over bird photography and not only that. I believe that there is no other book out there with such content quality and with such a fidelity in publishing.

This is one of the most informative and easy to read books on bird photography that I have ever read. Anyone with an interest in photographing birds should have this book in their library. My skill level has increased just by reading this book and no doubt will only get better after reading the book over and over. I would give this a 10 star rating if I could.

My husband loves the book. He is a bird watcher and photographer