Self-Taught Techniques

Without much cajoling, international award-winning photographer Song Jin Tek reveals the secrets behind his remarkable photo of a bird diving underwater with a fish firmly in its beak.
Conventional wisdom has it that nature photography requires patience and luck, but Song, whose work ranked 9th in the Photographic Society Americas colour slide division in 1990, says he can make birds, dragonflies, butterflies and insects pose for him.
His birdshot, entitled Catching (1990), was actually a scene from an aquarium. As part of the props preparation for the shot, Song impaled a live fish on a wire and planted it firmly among rocks in the middle of the aquarium.
Other fish, meant only for the camera, were made to swim among the leafy sides, shielded to prevent from distracting the bird.

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