Canon R7 Flycatcher Photography & More RF 100-500 Lens!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Using our Canon EOS R7 and the RF 100-500 telephoto lenses, Heather and I visit a couple of nature areas and make photos of the wildlife we find there.
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Phil: I agree, I use the lowest shutter rate 99% of the time. Using the highest electronic shutter rate ends up with spending the whole day culling nearly duplicate images.
...and I thought I was the only one! LOL :)
great photos!
Thank you!
How about more macros and street phones
I also shoot at lowest speed. Works for me and buffert in not a problem. :)
Great job on the birds guys. That dragon fly had no chance around there 😂 You’re really lucky to have Hummingbirds. I’d love to be able to photograph them one day 🤞 Thanks for sharing the video 👍
Thank you, Adrian! I never knew that hummingbirds were not in your area! You have so many amazing birds there I just assumed you must have some sort of hummingbird there as well.
Thanks so much Phil for sharing another wonderful video like always, awesome photos 🐦👍🤗
Thank you, Miguel!
Hi Phil. Another great video. I notice you’re using the R7 with the 100-500 quite a bit. The trade off with the lower keeper must be worth it to you both. The images do look great. Could you comment on your reasons you’re sticking with the R7 for wildlife ?Thanks so much.😊👍🕊After watching the whole video I see you answered my questions ! Yay !
Yes, we prefer the R7 for birds most certainly. Thanks for watching!
I actually like Camera Landscape with the R5 and R7. Great prairie warbler shots and so glad to see the flycatchers as you promised from the last video!
Thank you! Heather has used Camera landscape couple of times but I have not. We visit the flycatcher nest one more time before they fledged. Next time we will be doing 30 frames per second shots of the birds as they fly into the box. I think that video comes out on the 15th but I have another video that comes out before that where I work at a different location.
Phil and Heather. Treat video and love the prairie warbler pics. Planning on R7 as my second camera (have an R5). Wondering if auto focus is ok as I hear from other photographers like Brent Hall and Duade Paton about autofocus issues?
Thank you! If you’re expecting 100% of your photos to be perfectly in focus, then I guess there are auto focus issues but if you have a more realistic expectation, the R7 does just fine.
Glad you got to take Heather back with you! Good to run into both of you downtown yesterday!
Thank you, Tim! It was nice to see you too and big congrats on the success of your latest video!
Great shots Phil and Heather! Amazing the flycatchers can catch dragonflies, as fast as they dart around.
I wish I had seen them do it. Thank you!
Your channel has become an unintentional best advert for both the R7 and 100-500! You guys where the one's who sold me on this combo.
Thank you! It’s a really great combination.
Yes, I use low speed continuous almost exclusively, for some of the reasons you mention, particularly coming home with too many shots to go through. Nice video and shots!
Thank you!
I think that hummingbird shot looks great
Thank you, David!
As always, great photos. However, I'm team dragonfly and it's going to take me some time to get over seeing the horror in those first few photos. 😁
Thank you! and LOL :)
Would definitely like to see more Birds. There was an nice variety of Birds in this video with some great shots.
Thank you!
Very nice photos Heather and Phil!
Thank you!
Hey Phil, great idea on using a lower FPS. I generally have my R5 set at 12 FPS, but I do find that I'm hitting the buffer at inopportune moments. Also, I'm glad that I'm not the only one using Camera Faithful. Started using that a while back and prefer it to the other profiles. I would like to have it as the default, but I don't want to create a preset to apply at import, as that would make every image appears as if it had edits. If you know of another way to set as default, that won't show as an edit, let me know.
Thank you, Craig! Unfortunately, I don’t know a way to make it default to camera faithful. We do enjoy using camera faithful but we don’t use it 100% of the time.
Great pictures by you both.
Thank you!
fantastic shot for your lovely morning, love that warbler so much, wish i can see it for real.
Thank you!
Wow ! I wish we had Prairie Warbler. Great shots ! What a beautiful bird :) Hope to get that one some day on a cross country trip :) Heathers shot of the Hummingbird IF was still not bad art all. Me personally, I prefer IF Hummer shots that show some wing blur, to convey motion. I typically shoot at 1/400th to 1/800th for this. Of course this just comes down to personal preferences. Nice vid. TY :)
Thank you! I really appreciate your comment about preferring wing blur on a hummingbird shot. I thought I was the only one.
@@PhilThach right on :) And BTW, I've experimented a TON with everything from totally froze wings, to so blurred you almost couldn't see them. Going to be experimenting now, with the First Curtain Shutter mode in my R7, to prevent rolling shutter. Our Hummers have not been using the feeders a lot, because of all the natural nectar sources, but as our flowers dry up (here on the West coast) the feeders will get a lot more active :)
Great shots! I can't believe how large those dragonflies they were feasting on. I bring my photo's into LR and use the camera standard instead of adobe color. Many times I will bring down the yellow saturation & luminance to help out the green vegetation.
Thank you! Good idea on the yellow saturation. They bring a praying mantis to the nest in the next video from this location!
@@PhilThach I can’t wait to see that!
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Thank you!
Another great video. I really appreciate your emphasis on birds over gear, which is often missing. Mind you, I think the channel name should be changed to reflect Heather's involvement :)
I also meant to say that you make an excellent point about avoiding the high speed continuous shutter mode. For most applications - except possibly birds in flight - I also find the low speed continuous mode quite sufficient. As you note, this means the buffer will never fill, which is worth the reduction in frame rate IMO.
That’s a great point about adding Heather‘s name to the channel. I wonder if people would expect her to be in every video if I were to do that. She is featured in many videos but it still only adds up to 25 or maybe 30%.
@@PhilThach I can't speak for others, but I wouldn't be flummoxed by her appearance in only some of the videos. And I expect this is also true for your regular subscribers. Personally, I find the opportunity to "compare and contrast" between your photos to be quite informative, particularly when you are photographing the same subject.
Always such a pleasure viewing your videos and the photos taken by you and Heather. Many thanks once again for sharing your experiences!
Thank you, Ray!
GREAT content, Phil! Beautiful images from accessible locations. This is why I subscribe! (I envy the clear shots of the Chat. In our area, the Chats tend to stay buried in thicket. Almost never as clear as the shots you got.)
Thank you, Bill!
Great photography outing! Awesome images👍👍
Interesting tip on FPS. I always went with the slowest setting on my other camera (M50). I run the R7 in the middle, never hit the buffer and still despise culling. It's so easy to overlook the obvious solution...slow down😂
Thank you, Mark! It's worth it to experiment with the slow speed sometimes. In fact, I've gotten to where I use that speed the most. But, the next time Heather and I went to visit the Flycatcher nest, we both used the 30FPS mode because we were working on in-flight shots as they approached the nest.
@@PhilThach I'd always switch to a higher FPS for action sequences, but the simple switch can save a lot of culling. Great reminder!😂