Urban Wildlife in Times of COVID-19
Updated April 18th 2020
Like millions of people around the World, I’m locked-up in my home here in Toronto, Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, unlike many, I have the fortune and privilege to have a small backyard full of life. I’ve never experimented with Wildlife photography and don’t pretend to know what I’m doing, but since spring arrived to the city, a number of species have come to visit our backyard and I have decided to capture their unappreciated beauty. All I’m missing now is a Skunk, which are everywhere around this city; it’s just a matter of time and luck before I snap a photo of them. If you’re curious about how the RAW files looked before I edited the picture, you can find them at the bottom!
A Fox - f7.1, 200mm, ISO 180, 1/500 sec
A Robin - f/4.0, 200mm, ISO80, 1/500 sec
A yellow-rumped warbler? - f/4.0, 200mm, ISO 800, 1/500sec
A Cardinal - f/6.3, 200mm, ISO 800, 1/500 sec
It was like having a conversation with him. f5.0, 200mm, ISO 280, 1/160Sec
Chipmunk - f/5.6, 200mm, ISO 720, 1/320 sec
Another take on this beautiful Fox - f/6.3, 200mm, ISO 720, 1/800sec
For the photographers out there, curious to know how the RAW files looked before any editing, I exported the them as JPEG in the below gallery. That will give you an idea of my editing process and style.
