Capturing Motion: My Life in High Speed Nature Photography - Hardcover

Stephen Dalton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0228102723 ISBN 13: 9780228102724

Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

In this fascinating book Stephen Dalton takes the reader on a journey, recounting how he started in photography and how he became fascinated with the idea of photographing insects and birds in flight. When Dalton started to combine his interests in nature and photography, no photographer had succeeded in capturing on film a focused image of an animal in midair. There were no digital cameras, no high-speed film, only primitive flash units powered by a heavy car battery. Color film took a week or more to be sent away and processed, too late for Dalton to make adjustments to his camera and flash set-up. There were also no publications to learn from. Dalton describes how persistence, hard work and sheer faith that it could be done pushed him to experiment with a variety of methods. Two years of repeated attempts, an understanding of flight mechanics and insight into the art of photography brought success: he captured a sharply focused image of a barn owl leaving its nest. Dalton had created the art of motion photography. Capturing Motion: My Life in High Speed Nature Photography is part memoir, part adventure story and part scientific explanation, illustrated throughout with Dalton's pioneering photographs. Dalton explains how the photographic equipment of the time worked and takes the reader on his journeys into the English countryside in the 1960s as he searched for subjects. Capturing Motion follows the incredible journey of a highly skilled and creative nature photographer inventing an entirely new method. All photographers will enjoy reading about the determination and skill that went into creating a method they use every day in their craft.

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About the Author

Stephen Dalton is an internationally respected photographer whose high-speed wildlife photography has earned him a devoted following of both nature lovers and photographers. Dalton has published several books, including My Wood, Secret Worlds, Caught in Motion and The Miracle of Flight. He lives near Ardingly in the Sussex Weald.

Edition details

• Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0228102723
• ISBN 13: 9780228102724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192