PERFECT PUFFIN PHOTOGRAPHY

This month we visited Skomer, aka Puffin Island, as PhotoPlus reader Mark Braybook paired up with pro wildlife photographer Drew Buckley to learn to take some incredible bird photos

- Mark Braybook, Drew Buckley

This month we visited Skomer, aka Puffin Island, as PhotoPlus reader Mark Braybook paired up with pro wildlife photographer Drew Buckley to learn to take some incredible bird photos

APPRENTICE

NAME:

MARK BRAYBROOK

CAMERA: CANON EOS 6D

FIFTY-FIVE-year-old Mark worked as a professional photographic printer at Colour Processing for 25 years. He recently wrote to us asking for some tips and advice on how to get the most out of his Canon EOS 6D camera and he has also acquired a Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary lens. As he’s based in South Wales, we paired him up for the day with wildlife pro photographer Drew Buckley and they headed off to Skomer Island to practise puffin portraits and fast flight action.

CANON PRO

NAME: DREW BUCKLEY 

CAMERA: CANON EOS R5

DREW IS a Canon professional landscape and wildlife photographer based in South Wales, a regular PhotoPlus contributor, and has taken pictures for publications such as Photographing South Wales and The Puffin Book. From May to July, he runs workshops on Skomer island, the second largest island off the Welsh coast – home to large colonies of Atlantic Puffins, some 6,000 pairs – where you can get close enough to take amazing portraits and flying shots of the birds. For more information or to book a workshop, visit his website: drewbuckleyphotography.com

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