Bob Rehak took all of the photographs on this website. He is now retired and photographs for fun.
A gimbal head for your tripod is an essential tool for capturing fast-moving birds in flight with a heavy camera and long lens. Birds in flight move at tremendous speeds. Small songbirds like wrens and sparrows fly 10 to 20 miles (16 to 32 kilometers) per hour, while ducks, geese, and pigeons can fly at […]
There are many different ways to gauge the success of a photographic portrait. Does the portrait succeed on a technical level? For instance, is it lit well? Is it properly exposed? Next, does the portrait succeed on an emotional level? Is it merely a record of a fleeting expression at a point in time? Or […]
Teleconverters increase the effective focal length of a lens without increasing the minimum focusing distance. This means they can help bring you eyeball to eyeball with our feathery friends. However, they do have one big drawback. They decrease the amount of light you have to work with by one to two stops. I use two […]