Photographing Nature
Maker / Kaihanga
Geoffrey Moon
Production date / Rā mahi
1970
Description / Taipitopito kōrero
144 page book titled "photographing nature". This book is a collection of nature photographs and offers advice about the process of photographing nature
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Object detail
Maker / Kaihanga
Production date / Rā mahi
1970
System Id / Tautuhitanga Pūnaha
43319
Department / Wāhanga
Object type / Te momo taonga
Other Id / Tautuhitanga kē
TR146
Maker and role / Kaihanga me tōna tūranga
Geoffrey Moon: Author
Production details
Reed Books, Publisher, Wellington/New Zealand
Production place / Wāhi mahi
Content Titles / Ngā Taitara Take
Equipment; Bird Photography; Use of Hides; Use of Artificial Light; Combining Flash with Daylight; Photographing Birds in Flight; Photography after Dark; Landscapes and Trees; Plants and Small Animals; Close-up Photography; Cinematography; Pied Stilt; Eclipse of the Moon; Pied Fantail; Single lens reflex and Range Finder Cameras; The range of Asahi Pentax lenses; A homemade tilting head; 300mm telephoto on a homemade rifle stock; Three types of tripod; Spotless Crake; Banded Rail incubating; Banded Rail pulling down stems; Gannet on nest; Gannet feeding chick; Native Pigeon, 50mm lens; Native Pigeon 105mm lens; Native Pigeon, 200mm lens; Native Pigeon, 500mm lens; Dabchick; White-faced Heron; Kaka at nest entrance; Sandpipers; Scaup; White-faced Heron against faulty background; Black-billed gull against faulty background; Red-fronted Parakeet calling the hen; Cock parakeet feeding the hen; North Island Fernbird; A Portable Hide; Dismantling the Hide; Constructing the base for a hide; A hide built 50 feet up in a pine tree; Inside a semi-pylon hide; Constructing a hide; The completed hide; A hide built to photograph a morepork’s nest; A hide built on a rock; Kaka at nest entrance; White-backed Magpie; Song Thrush at nest; A hide raised up by building a sandhill; Positioning the camera in the hide; White-faced Heron at nest; Banded rail at nest; A very rare Fairy Tern; Banded Dotterel; Pied Stilt settling on eggs; Spoonbill; Caspian Tern feeding Chick; Oyster catcher in flight; Fairy Tern; Pipit using artificial perch; Male Saddleback bathing; Northern Oyster Catcher at nest; Myna using artificial perch; Bittern feeding chick; Bittern approaching nest; Bittern in alarm attitude; Starling flying to nest-box; Myna flying to nest; Harrier at bait; Harrier on perch; Kingfisher with skink; Kingfisher flying to nest hole; Kingfisher flying from nest hole; Kingfisher with Cicada; Godwits on a shell bank; Pūkekos and nest; Pūkekos feeding the chicks; Hen Pied Tit at nest; Whitehead; White backed Magpie; White backed Magpie using synchro-flash; Reef Heron returning to nest; Reef Heron at nest; Reef Heron feeding chick; Grey Warbler feeding chicks; Kaka squeezing through nest entrance; Fernbird bring a feather to the nest; Cock Red-fronted Parakeet calling the hen; Cock Red-fronted Parakeet feeding the hen; Tūī feeding chicks; Tūī with beak full of berries; Kingfisher in flight; Kingfisher with Katydid; Clamping a flash unit to the hide; Pre-focusing on the line of flight; Starling against confused background; Starling against improved background; Starling flying to nest box; Starling braking to land; Head lamp and flash outfit; Cook’s Petrel; Morepork flying to nest hole; Morepork feeding chick; Pigeon feeding chick; Morepork about to land; Morepork, using one lamp; Morepork, using two lamps; Morepork using an artificial perch; Morepork with attention on the camera; Morepork with chicks; Morepork with Weta; Myna flying to nest; red-fronted Parakeet; Hen Pied Tit flying to nest; Eclipse of the Moon; A large Kauri on the outskirts of the Bush; Mt Egmont; A coastal scene, midday; A coastal scene, evening; A landscape taken with 35mm lens; A landscape taken with 50mm lens; A landscape taken with 105mm lens; A landscape taken with 200mm lens; A seascape; Scene taken using a green or yellow filter; Trees in silhouette; Autumn leaves; Kiore on a stick; Red Oak Leaf; Tuatara; Lacebark flower; Camera positioned to photograph the Green Bush Orchid; Green Bush Orchid; Native Creeping Fuschia; Tufted Haastia; Cotton Daisy; Spaniard; Native Tree Orchid; Kowhai Blossom; Rock pool; A shell photographed against a neutral background; Korikori; Thelymitra Orchid; Spider’s Web; Rengarenga rock lily; Leaf taken against the light; Catkins in early morning light; The set-up for close photography; Weta; Stick insect eating acment leaf; Monarch butterfly; Aphids on a citrus stem; Petrified wood; Stick Insect; Green Looper Caterpillar; Emperor Gum Moth; Katydid; Petrified Wood; 8mm Movie Camera; Adapter ring to take Pentax lenses; Sound proof box for 16mm Movie Camera