Thanks for the tip on upping the shutter speed. It seems common sense, but I'm still learning how to best use my camera’s manual settings and get miffed when my pictures aren't sharp. This will help a lot!!
Tim, love the tips and liked the vlogs so don't lose them in the other vlogs I subscribe to. You always provide sound advice and back it up with your images, even the sorry ones. As always look forward to the next.
Tim Good clear advice I am just getting into wildlife photography only done wildlife in the Garden so far I have a Nikon D5500 having some trouble with focus being slow looking to upgrade to the D500 in the professional range I am really getting hook on this subject Thanks again
Hi Jim, Good to meet you today, The classes I'm teaching for the Winter Wings Festivals: Photographing Birds of Prey Thursday Feb 14th 10 Am to 11:30 AM, Feb 15th, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Bird Photography For Birders. Hope to see you at the festival, Tiim
@@GodwitMediaLLC Sounds great.I'll do my best to get to the Raptor talk.Really nice meeting you today.Hope you got some nice shots of the swans coming in.
Phenomenal video, Tim! Are you still using the Canon EOS R a lot, and did you shoot these pictures with it? I’m considering saving up for this camera body, and maybe a Canon 400mm f/5.6L USM lens or Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. The prime is cheaper and as sharp, but it doesn’t have the IS and zoom capacity. I’ll use this for bird photography, wildlife photography, landscape photography and street photography. I mainly shoot pictures of birds. I don’t need a fast frame rate, if that just results in more pictures in less time. Extra reach would do, though. I’m using a combination of the Canon 6D camera body, and Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM C lens as of now. I’m also thinking of getting a Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM A lens with this camera body instead of the expensive RF lenses. How do you think the Art lenses compare to the new RF lenses?
Extenders or Tele-converters as they are sometimes called have glass in them and magnify the image. Most are 1.4 power or 2.0 power so a 100 mm lens would be a 140mm lens and with the 2.0 a 200mm lens. Extension Tube are hollow, and do not have any glass in them, they act as a spacer between the camera and the lens and are most often used in macro photography so the camera and lens can focus closer. In bird photography a lot of the lens have a 10 to 14 foot minimum focusing distance, and an extension tube will reduce that so you can be closer to the bird.
Thank you for the video. Some very important things to learn. One point of dissent. Use of flash should be avoided while shooting wildlife. Wildlife Biologists maintain, sudden burst of light might adversely affect vision of the subject. For me, I'm happy to lose an awesome moment for the sake of their safely as their lives are far more important than a "great shot" of mine. Thanks again.
Hi Regina, Yes I mostly use Manual Mode, I find that when I'm tired, I switch to Aperture Priority Mode because I shot that way for over 25 years. My goal is a soft background, and that's more important to me then what mode I use to get there. So if I get a good soft background with Aperture instead of Manual no one will know the difference. Lots of ways to get to the same place in the exposure triangle and photography. Thanks For watching the tutorials Tim
What? No rule about wearing a hat to protect against goose poop hitting you in the Head? Maybe you could add it to the three Ps. Great video as always. Thanks !
+Steve Coffin Hi Steve It must have frozen before it hit the ground. Colder here this week then Bosque in December. You probably have the warmest weather in the country right now. Thanks Tim
Great tips Tim
Awesome channel ... thanks so much ,,!!
Thanks for the tip on upping the shutter speed. It seems common sense, but I'm still learning how to best use my camera’s manual settings and get miffed when my pictures aren't sharp. This will help a lot!!
Some good tips here + use Olympus cameras with pro capture to get really nice images
Tim, love the tips and liked the vlogs so don't lose them in the other vlogs I subscribe to. You always provide sound advice and back it up with your images, even the sorry ones. As always look forward to the next.
Thanks, I think I learn more from the mistakes, so why not show them, maybe someone else won't make the same mistake I did.
@@GodwitMediaLLC I know right. But the thing is we all make those mistakes, part of our growth as photographers.
Can't understand why 2 folks didn't like this excellent video.
Who knows, 278 people liked it, that's the number I'm thankful for. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Very good tips! Thanks Tim.
Fabulous shots, Tim. And excellent tips. Thank you
Thank you!
Thanks Tim, great tips and hoping the swans and cranes in my area watched this too!
Beautiful pictures 😊
Wow! another great tutorial video with stunning supporting images. Thank you.
Thanks Tim more fantastic tips well worth watching.
thank you!
Thanks for the great tips with examples. Have a great day Tim
Thank you!
Tim Good clear advice I am just getting into wildlife photography only done wildlife in the Garden so far I have a Nikon D5500 having some trouble with focus being slow looking to upgrade to the D500 in the professional range I am really getting hook on this subject Thanks again
Another channel to check out is Steve Perry, he's a Nikon shooter and can help you with specific Nikon kind of questions. Good luck and have fun!
thank you
Great advice. Thanks for sharing
+Steve Martin Thanks!
Good video, thanks. 😀
Hey Tim, I'm the guy just met at Tulelake.Just subscribed.
Hi Jim, Good to meet you today, The classes I'm teaching for the Winter Wings Festivals: Photographing Birds of Prey Thursday Feb 14th 10 Am to 11:30 AM, Feb 15th, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Bird Photography For Birders. Hope to see you at the festival, Tiim
@@GodwitMediaLLC Sounds great.I'll do my best to get to the Raptor talk.Really nice meeting you today.Hope you got some nice shots of the swans coming in.
Phenomenal video, Tim!
Are you still using the Canon EOS R a lot, and did you shoot these pictures with it?
I’m considering saving up for this camera body, and maybe a Canon 400mm f/5.6L USM lens or Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. The prime is cheaper and as sharp, but it doesn’t have the IS and zoom capacity.
I’ll use this for bird photography, wildlife photography, landscape photography and street photography. I mainly shoot pictures of birds. I don’t need a fast frame rate, if that just results in more pictures in less time.
Extra reach would do, though. I’m using a combination of the Canon 6D camera body, and Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM C lens as of now.
I’m also thinking of getting a Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM A lens with this camera body instead of the expensive RF lenses. How do you think the Art lenses compare to the new RF lenses?
Very interesting 🇿🇦
Great tips, I learned something, thanks a lot Tim
Great tips thanks. Is there a difference between extension tubes and extenders?
Extenders or Tele-converters as they are sometimes called have glass in them and magnify the image. Most are 1.4 power or 2.0 power so a 100 mm lens would be a 140mm lens and with the 2.0 a 200mm lens. Extension Tube are hollow, and do not have any glass in them, they act as a spacer between the camera and the lens and are most often used in macro photography so the camera and lens can focus closer. In bird photography a lot of the lens have a 10 to 14 foot minimum focusing distance, and an extension tube will reduce that so you can be closer to the bird.
@@GodwitMediaLLC THANKS THAT'S VERY HELPFUL TO KNOW!
Thank you for the video. Some very important things to learn.
One point of dissent. Use of flash should be avoided while shooting wildlife. Wildlife Biologists maintain, sudden burst of light might adversely affect vision of the subject. For me, I'm happy to lose an awesome moment for the sake of their safely as their lives are far more important than a "great shot" of mine.
Thanks again.
Ask these same biologists what they think of lightning
@@birdmagic.photography lightening comes from above, never directly to the eyes.
I assume mostly you are shooting in manual mode, is that correct? I am still in AV because my main focus in the past has been more macro work.
Hi Regina,
Yes I mostly use Manual Mode, I find that when I'm tired, I switch to Aperture Priority Mode because I shot that way for over 25 years. My goal is a soft background, and that's more important to me then what mode I use to get there. So if I get a good soft background with Aperture instead of Manual no one will know the difference. Lots of ways to get to the same place in the exposure triangle and photography.
Thanks For watching the tutorials
Tim
What? No rule about wearing a hat to protect against goose poop hitting you in the Head? Maybe you could add it to the three Ps. Great video as always. Thanks !
+Steve Coffin Hi Steve
It must have frozen before it hit the ground. Colder here this week then Bosque in December. You probably have the warmest weather in the country right now. Thanks Tim
I was thinking about the 7 Perils of Bird Photography. Check your email.@@GodwitMediaLLC
Shoot tight for max detail and then add canvas in PS. JMHO
06:49 crap😱😰 I'm afraid.
Good think we're too big for them to eat, or thy like would try. Please don't have nightmares 😉
@@GodwitMediaLLC he seems angry 🤣🤣😂😂 nice timing.
better not to use flash on birds..
Most birds do okay with some flash use, I would agree not to over use it, if a bird seems agitated, it's time to stop.
Why not? Lightning has already blinded them.