Cranston, Rhode Island - SWAROVSKI OPTIK NORTH AMERICA, a subsidiary of the Austrian-based company, announces a birding web series.
SWAROVSKI OPTIK NORTH AMERICA and Sharon Stiteler of Birdchick.com have partnered to create a web series called Digiscoping with Clay and Sharon that not only shares digiscoping and birding tips but is also a contest for the viewer!
In eight episodes, Sharon and Clay offer tips on how to observe some of their favorite birds and how to get cracker jack shots without disturbing them. Each episode is five to eight minutes long and all the wildlife footage was digiscoped using Swarovski spotting scopes, iPhones and digital single lens reflex cameras. Also, the birds shown in each episode are a clue to the series theme. Viewers can enter in their guess of what they think the theme is and all the correct entries are put in a drawing for a SWAROVSKI OPTIK STS spotting scope.
"I love digiscoping and both Clay and I have a ton of fantastic bird footage from our travels," Sharon Stiteler said. "However, we don't always have the time to upload. I wanted to come up with a way to share images and also show people how fun birds and digiscoping can be with the right equipment and in the right place. It's getting easy to share video with smart phones, my hope is that some people will be inspired to try birding and that maybe a kid out there will see this and be inspired to create their own nature series on the Internet. Even birds in an urban backyard are fun to digiscope."
Clay Taylor, Naturalist Market Manager for SWAROVSKI OPTIK NORTH AMERICA said, "Digiscoping has evolved rapidly in the past few years, with new cameras, adapters, spotting scopes and accessories making the process a lot easier and more fun to do, and at the same time yielding better results than ever before. The advent of Cell Phone Digiscoping, with stills and videos made possible by dedicated adapters, will open up digiscoping (and digi-binocular photography) to many more new users. Our new web series will give viewers an in-depth look at digiscoping - equipment and camera setups, finding the birds, field techniques, and most importantly, surviving a day in the field with the Bird Chick."
The series will premiere in spring on the Birdchick YouTube Channel and each episode will air once a week for eight weeks. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm0OE0aSoV8 or http://www.birdchick.com/wp/category/contest/
