What's RUINING Your Bird Photography? Part 4 | Common Mistakes
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In this episode of "What's Ruining Your Bird Photography?", we discuss some common mistakes made by bird photographers, both in the field and during the editing process. If you'd like to check out the other episodes, you can find them here:
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Table of Contents
0:00 - Mistake 1
1:48 - Mistake 2
4:07 - Mistake 3
6:03 - Mistake 4
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Manual focus (and observing birds) can also be useful for Birds In Flight (BIF) where the autofocus doesn't work as well. If the bird is repeatedly flying between a few perches, pick one of its flight paths, focus on an area in between the perches, watch the bird, and as it flies along that path just hold down the shutter (in HI+ or whatever your camera calls the fastest "take pictures continually" mode). If you lined everything up right & have all your other settings good, chances are decent you'll end up with a nice sharp photo in one of those frames as the bird passes through the focal plane.
Yes, great addition! Thanks for sharing!
A less direct tip I also use is to take out-of-focus pictures of backgrounds that I think are going to be too "busy" with the real photo. Particularly handy for forests. Then I can swap the blurred background in when editing. Sort of a reverse of the usual focus stacking landscape photographers do.
It’s always great when I can wake up to one of Stefano’s videos! This series has helped me get better wildlife photos and the tips are simple and to the point.
Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos! Thanks for watching!
1:21 to switch on IS if you have it, yet in the other video you mentioned that it can hinder your image as its trying to stabilise something that Isn't there. Literally binge watched all 4 just now! Cheers
Thanks for watching! In case you missed them, here are the other episodes! Episode 1: kzhead.info/sun/dbprfJF5e3l3h58/bejne.html Episode 2: kzhead.info/sun/npqfkrCMg4eDnIE/bejne.html Episode 3: kzhead.info/sun/icylabugoHSnqp8/bejne.html
For getting close to a bird , I suggest doing a heron stalking walk , slow ,deliberate , and calculated steps
Thank you for all your videos on bird photography, they make me want to get out there early and improve my game
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience with us! I’m new to this whole game of bird photography, and your videos have helped greatly.
SO happy to hear it's helping. Thanks for watching!
some great tips stefano. Manual focus is something i am trying to retrain my brain to get used to doing instead of relying on the tech to di it for me. thanks brother.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video Stefano!!! Very helpful!!
So glad you enjoyed it!
I really like great video Stefano. Very helpful. Special thanks. 👍👌
Great presentation and insights, thanks! Also know those kingbirds on the post, saw them to leaving the nest last season.
Great points. Thanks
I'm using back-button AF and manual focus override almost all the time, it's probably the best method for birds that are not flying in open spaces
Great advice! I definitely will create a custom button to toggle between autofocus and manual. Keep vlogging and thanks!
Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for watching!
Ótimo video. Vou rever todos os episódios. Abraços do Brasil
Stefano, you are a really great youtuber and do amazing videos. Thanks for your hard work to bring us entertainment.
So glad you’re enjoying the videos! Thanks for watching 🙂
Hi! new subscriber Stefano, great series of videos thank you so much. Your photos are amazing
That means a lot, thank you!
thanks for showing us all tips on birding.... I believe alot of my trouble is the iso from what your saying about the noise ....the grainy look ..But with my old junk its still hard to tell iv tried a few times before its just hard to get it right
Hi Stefano, thank you for your great videos. Can I know how can you terminate the micro vibrate on footage when at longest tele focus ? hope you can share thank you
Great video, thank you
Honest and true. Nice advice.
Thank you!
Great video, very helpful information.
Thank you!
Good video -thanks
Great video, will try to keep in mind some of my mistake to get better results! Thanks
Thanks so much 🙂
Excellent video
Great video with spot on advice, I would add, know your camera and lens limitations and adapt accordingly.
Yes, very good point! Thanks for sharing!
Nice tips mate.
Thank you!
I always enjoy your videos.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting information 🤔
Thank you!
Can you post something about video picture profiles?
Good job
Great, thank you! I was wondering if you still like to use your tripod foot as a base when you're hand-holding? Cause in this video you were holding the lens directly.
Thanks for watching! And I do both depending how the foot is oriented. Usually when I’m laying on the ground the foot is on top cause I want the lens to go as close to the ground as possible. So in those cases I usually hold the lens directly
@@StefanoIaniro I see. Thanks for the reply:)
Great video. I hope one day I can afford those camera gears to get photos of wildlife.
So this is going to sound completely bonkers, but I shoot entirely in manual focus. That's because I don't have an option to auto-focus. Ya see, the lens I use is a refractor telescope lol. When you can't afford good glass you go with the next best thing available and so I borrowed from one hobby I was involved in to enhance another. Also, fantastic series. It is helping me out so much!
I like your attitude to nature.
Thanks so much!
Cool video man, but I was reading wats running your photography and I was like 🤔🤔🤔🤔 no idea man that’s a interesting concept 🤣
Doesn't matter how fast or slow I move the camera to the eye, the object still escape right before the camera reaches my face/eye 😅 But now I just use the power of 60 fps. So I push and hold the trigger while getting the evf up to my eye 😅
I think there's an unwritten law that birds have to fly away right before we press the shutter button 😅
@@StefanoIaniro anything that flies actually 😅 butterflies sits down. You are going low to get better angle, it flies to another spot 🤦♂️ that's why I shoot them from eye height 😅
Some good points in this video. Are you planning to get the Sony 600 F4 ?
Thanks! And I've been thinking about it. It's not the most versatile lens for video, which is making me hesitant to pull the trigger.
Thanks for the video. As an aside, what brand is your jacket?
It's a Browning. This specific model is the BTU-WD Parka
@@StefanoIaniro thanks mate.
6:28 does anyone know how to enable the function that he is using, the one that shows you where the focus is in blue?
Merci beaucoup 👍🎥🎥🎥
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im having a real rough time its about nesting season for wood ducks its also hunting season ,they are extremely skidish ..real hard subjects .i think i need to just upgrade all this stuff is 10 -15 years old .
I just caught a great tit yesterday but as i could see, it was the exact same problem from your first tip... The focus was just nearby the bird, even if it was caught with a short speed (1/1000 was good to my mind). So can you give me more advices to take clean birds shots ? That would be so nice from you ! Keep going the videos, they're awesome !🔥😎🙌
I have long observed that birds will accept humans as not a threat if we are still in our movements, not lifting out arms and against a background so we do not silhouette. Camouflage is not entirely necessary. Like most animals if they can see you but you are just mooching about they will not disperse, but if you suddenly appear as if from nowhere they will. We are hunters and have long been able to stalk prey to get close, it's just a case of remembering those skills. Birds react to movements and shape - outstretched raised arms are seen as wings, they''ll all take off. I've also observed that even the best teleconverters degrade the image, to use a longer lens if you have one. The digital teleconverter can work but depends on whether it drops the image or does pixel-binning. Camera and lens stabilisation is a godsend for camera shake and framing but does absolutely nothing to subject movement blur. The slowest I will use for birds is probably 1/400, any slower and it would have to be stuffed and nailed to its perch. Modern cameras seem to have optimum ISOs where you might not expect, due to signal to noise off the sensor, the amp gain and NR. ISO400 may be better than base ISO200, ISO3200 can produce better results than ISO1600, ISO12800 better than ISO6400, we have to experiment with the camera so find the sweet spots, and fixing the ISO there can be better than auto. Dual gain sensors are something else.
If you could educate us on OS on/off rules, that would be great. Some say, when using tripod, turn off the OS. Some also say, when your shutter speed is pretty high, turn off the OS. At what shutter speed you turn off your lens/camera OS off? What about while using a monopod? Treat it like handheld Or more like on Tripod?
My exact questions!
Well I'm not a professional photographer but in my experience, OS is perfectly fine on until you are using slow shutter speeds on a tripod, let's say slower than 1/60 at 600mm. I always have it on with a monopod
Good knlowege
6:44 How in the world did u get a WBNU in grass?! 😂
Lol, I saw it collecting nesting material, so I waited where I saw it collecting and sure enough it came back!
Sir give me a camera setup Please i hope and i like i went a photographer but haven't money . i am poor please help me.
I will tell ya what is ruining my bird photos...THESE DAMN BIRDS...I mean come on man, get out of that thicket and sit in a NICE BRANCH. Get out in some GOOD LIGHT, don't sit back there in the dark....and turn that head so your eye catches some light once in awhile...but NO not these DAMN BIRDS...sit in the dark behind 20 thousand tree limbs with their backs to me....I will tell ya what is ruining my bird photos...THESE DAMN BIRDS 😉😁
I'll tell what's ruining mines: the lack of money to buy better gear hehe
Haha 😁