Great vid. I am new to bird photography but the first thing I was told was to crop off all the space and to focus just on the bird. Your vid lends a different perspective and I like that. Thanks.
Tim that was excellent, thank you. Something I am aware of but something I almost always forget when out in the field! Hopefully I will now put practice into place, in fact I have the perfect subject in mind in my back garden photography project.
Great tutorial, Tim. I loved seeing all those beautiful photos. It's something I've been trying to be more conscious of the more I go out and take photos. Thanks!
Excellent images, I think the mistake I make when editing my images is that I crop in to see feather detail. I’ve taken a picture of a bird so I concentrate on the detail in the bird. I agree you do get more evocative images when you allow for space. I am going to take note when shooting and cropping in future of negative space. I use D500 and Nikor 200-500.
This is an issue where my camera club comrades disagree with me. I like negative space in my bird photos. They always say "You should crop it". Glad to get affirmation that there's method to my madness!
John Drummond I agree with you about camera clubs. Too many clubs have members that are too into the “rules” of composition and seemingly don’t understand the art of composition. I have always maintained that the first person you have to please with your images is yourself. If you don’t like want you are doing it is hard to get others to like it.
I ll have more info for you in the next few weeks as I do a video on minimalism and then Zen photography. Thanks and keep shooting with plenty of negative space.
I crop close sometimes to eliminate a distracting element. If I see it while taking the picture, I may wait for the bird to turn its head away from the distraction, knowing I will crop out or crop away from that distracting object. If I can I will move myself to get a better background. My photography style is walking around watching birds and taking opportunistic photos. So often I have little choice in background, but always try to pay attention.
Tim, I love your videos! They are very informative and I am thankful to see a professional Olympus user for bird photography. Questtion, I own EM1MK2, Is EM1X worth the upgrade for AF-Tracking? I would like to see a video covering bird in flight settings and examples using EM1MK2 w/ 300mm F4. Thank you very much!
I never shot the. M1 Mark II, but. I per her the. M1 Mark III over the. M1X because it is a pound lighter and has pretty much all the. bird photogprhy features that the M1X has. If you do a lot of landscape you might want the M1X, but for just birds, save some weight and $ by going with the M1 Mark III.
Many of these birds are on the left side of the image and all look to the right. I agree that this looks good but wonder if this is cultural and that some might find looking to the left pleasing. Thanks for the great videos.
Lourdes Venard Instagram uses a square format for their images and that does limit or at least changes how you do your images. It is more difficult to use negative space in a square as opposed to a rectangular format. Many photographers that use Instagram will shoot different images so that have one that is suited to instagram and one for printing.
I know what you mean, a lot of the images in the video, the birds wee smaller in the frame before I had to crop to16:9. I might just start shooting with that aspect ratio!
Great vid. I am new to bird photography but the first thing I was told was to crop off all the space and to focus just on the bird. Your vid lends a different perspective and I like that. Thanks.
Great video! Very nice photos! Excellent advice!
I love your images and way to explain the tips and tricks to learn about bird photography.Thanks for sharing your stunning images
I totally agree....that's probably why most of my photos in the landscape orientation 🤣🤣🤣
Very important advices And so amazing all your videos info thanks alot, mr Tim
I love negative space and great border patrol. Great tutorial, as always!
Thanks!
Yes good point often use negative space in my photography, often not explored in Wildlife arena. Good topic and video thanks Tim
My pleasure!
Thanks!Another excelent video! I have to say it you have the best Intro music! Keep the jams comming! :)
Glad you like the reggae music! Thanks!
Tim that was excellent, thank you. Something I am aware of but something I almost always forget when out in the field! Hopefully I will now put practice into place, in fact I have the perfect subject in mind in my back garden photography project.
Cracking video, - thanks Tim
Great tutorial, Tim. I loved seeing all those beautiful photos. It's something I've been trying to be more conscious of the more I go out and take photos. Thanks!
Excellent images, I think the mistake I make when editing my images is that I crop in to see feather detail. I’ve taken a picture of a bird so I concentrate on the detail in the bird. I agree you do get more evocative images when you allow for space. I am going to take note when shooting and cropping in future of negative space. I use D500 and Nikor 200-500.
This is an issue where my camera club comrades disagree with me. I like negative space in my bird photos. They always say "You should crop it". Glad to get affirmation that there's method to my madness!
John Drummond I agree with you about camera clubs. Too many clubs have members that are too into the “rules” of composition and seemingly don’t understand the art of composition. I have always maintained that the first person you have to please with your images is yourself. If you don’t like want you are doing it is hard to get others to like it.
I ll have more info for you in the next few weeks as I do a video on minimalism and then Zen photography. Thanks and keep shooting with plenty of negative space.
Great tutorial, the autographed Book was also great! Learned a lot about Bird photography!
Thanks I appreciate the feedback and glad you liked the book and found it helpful!
I crop close sometimes to eliminate a distracting element. If I see it while taking the picture, I may wait for the bird to turn its head away from the distraction, knowing I will crop out or crop away from that distracting object. If I can I will move myself to get a better background. My photography style is walking around watching birds and taking opportunistic photos. So often I have little choice in background, but always try to pay attention.
Thank you for sharing, that's a great technique!
Great advice Tim !
Thanks Tim! I learned a lot from this one.
Thanks again, Mick!
Thank you master.
You are very kind, just another traveler trying to figure it all out. Thanks for watching!
Great tips Tim! I enjoy your videos. Do you plan to revise your book specific to Olympus gear?
Yes, I'm working on a different book now but the next one will either be mirrorless bird photography or Olympus bird photography. Thanks for watching!
Good job!
Tim, I love your videos! They are very informative and I am thankful to see a professional Olympus user for bird photography. Questtion, I own EM1MK2, Is EM1X worth the upgrade for AF-Tracking? I would like to see a video covering bird in flight settings and examples using EM1MK2 w/ 300mm F4. Thank you very much!
I never shot the. M1 Mark II, but. I per her the. M1 Mark III over the. M1X because it is a pound lighter and has pretty much all the. bird photogprhy features that the M1X has. If you do a lot of landscape you might want the M1X, but for just birds, save some weight and $ by going with the M1 Mark III.
Many of these birds are on the left side of the image and all look to the right. I agree that this looks good but wonder if this is cultural and that some might find looking to the left pleasing.
Thanks for the great videos.
Interesting and this makes sense to me.
Is post-processing to blur the background, creating a negative space considered cheating?
NO, It's called creating art in my book!
I like to shoot with negative space too, but then I end up cropping it on Instagram because the image of the bird seems so small.
Lourdes Venard Instagram uses a square format for their images and that does limit or at least changes how you do your images. It is more difficult to use negative space in a square as opposed to a rectangular format. Many photographers that use Instagram will shoot different images so that have one that is suited to instagram and one for printing.
I know what you mean, a lot of the images in the video, the birds wee smaller in the frame before I had to crop to16:9. I might just start shooting with that aspect ratio!
Yep small screen space