Carolina Yañez - Chilean Bird Guide

            We don't travel independently, so guides are a very important part of our trips. I've decided to try and get nice photos of them, something I find quite challenging, mainly because taking pictures of people is hard. Birds don't care what their photos look like, whereas people do - and you don't want to let them down. Also, I'm carrying a non-traditional portrait lens - 500mms, which isolates faces nicely, but hampers communication by setting you a fair distance from the subject. 

For the photo below of Sergio Urrejola, our guide at Parque Nacional Patagonia, I shouted "Stare into the middle distance!". For Carolina Yañez, our leader for the first couple days of the trip around Santiago, I yelled "Stop smiling!", because she was laughing at me too much.

Yáñez is a marine biologist. ln addition to work on various bird-related research and conservation projects, she's also does environmental education in Valparaíso area schools. As a guide, she was fantastic. Deep knowledge of natural history is a prerequisite for the job, but hardly sufficient by itself. Carolina also brought the other necessary skills - organization, leadership, communication, and social that inspired confidence and delivered a perfect introduction to birding in Chile. A big thank you to her, and to BirdsChile.

Taken in: Chile / Valparaíso / Quintero (show map)

Taken on: October 30, 2016

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Sets appears in: • Chile Patagonia 2016

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Camera: Canon EOS-1D X, f/4.0, 1/2000 sec, 500mm, ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS-1D X
Lens:	EF500mm f/4L IS II USM
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/2000)
Focal Length:	500mm
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.7 (Macintosh)
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