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Thanks! Love your sense of humor! Really enjoyable video! Ha yes, I shoot everything with pinpoint autofocus. Just used to it!! Good tips! But how do you sneak up on birds in the snow? Or prevent your fingers from freezing to your camera while waiting for one to show up??

Yes found your TH-cam page

Thank you for the three good tips.

Loved this, Trav! 🤩After pausing the video several times (that Puffin is too cute for my attention span!🫣🤭), you made me realize that I don’t like overcast days due to my wrong expectations. I’m obsessed with shooting birds in flight-no matter what- yet the disappointment when, for example, I don’t have a dark background. As you said, living in this area we need to make friends with this weather 😅, so I’ll be out today and focus on perched birds to ease my anxiety 🥹

EXCELLENT! Here in western Montana most of the winter is cloudy so overcast light, but also bright background due to snow,. It makes the morning and evening darker, so typically mid-day is when I get the most overcast light for photos.

Great tips! Going to hopefully incorporate more photography along with my TH-cam videos this year and your guides are providing me with great tips!

Goof to know that I didn't have the wrong idea about overcast conditions. As a matter of the fsct, there were overcast conditions all day yesterday, and I actually found it better to shoot in. One particular experience was a lake I stumbled upon with over 50 Mute Swans. Normally, the feather highlights would get blown out, but the cloudy conditions were perfect for getting almost everything even.

sorry, but I really dislike overcast light. All it does is dilute colour, reduce the DR and provide a very poor background. Sure, sometimes you can't avoid it, but if I can, I'll hard pass.

Another great video, I didn’t take my camera out today because of a cloudy overcast day with a little rain…this video opened my eyes, thanks!

Great video and tips!! You've changed my mind about overcast days 🙂

It is your fault you focused on her nd she posed for u 😂

Thank You!

Very very seful tips. Especially the one about having a cluttered background. I rectnly snapped two pictures (much more, i suppose with burst shots) of Pileated Woodpeckers. One female and one male. The shots of the female are the only ones i can pick something out of due to only having a 600mm. I thought I'd be able to crop in in post, but I found out real quick that this wasn't going to work. Unfortunately, there was no other way to get close to either of them so it looks like ill have to either purchase an APSC body (cheaper option potentially) or sell my Sigma 150-600 and get the Sony 200-600 with one of the teleconverters. That'll be fun to figure out how to balance exposure since I'll be losing light.

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Hey! first time here; wow I see a Kea and Kookaburra- you must be based either in New Zealand or Australia!

Good Tips 🔥🔥🔥 I now a good App it’s called (Picture Bird)

Haha absolutely love the tips and the ending 😂

great tips. thank you

Finally someone, and things, I can relate to in a practical way. Thanks.

Great tips!

A good quick review of how to photograph birds. I don't disagree with anything you said. One technique I use is to take those fast shutter speed photos first and get a sharp image I'm happy with on the card. Then start dropping the shutter speed to allow for lower ISO. I usually start at 1/800th and have gotten as low as1/50th on a Carolina Wren and got tack sharp results.

Bravo Trav excellent video agree on all 🎉👍👏

I enjoyed that Thankyou…love the Kookaburra toy in the background 😄

Great video, thank you!!

Wow, such a beautiful bird and such beautiful shots! The subtle color in the dark parts of its face and wings is so cool.

Hey trav. I love sour instagram but appreciate that you try to share your insights with all of us. May I suggest getting a cheap clip on lav mic? You can record it on your phone and it makes your audio quality a lot better.

Awwww its so cute :3

Wing Blur? Hell that's what I want for hummingbirds. I shoot at 1/350 to get the eye and body sharp but with blurry wings. It shows how impossibly fast they are. It's the way I see them when I look at them, and it reflects their high energy nature.

I think that second bird lost his neck in flight

Don't be afraid of high iso, but use iso as low as possible. When the eye is sharp, the wings don't need to be when that indicates action. Not all pictures need to be similar.

I like wing blur with some definition

Probably the best video on TH-cam on the subject. Bang on tips and really well put with appropriate examples. Thanks for sharing!

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I photograph wildlife and birds in flight with Pentax cameras i have my camera setting in user modes UI Autofocus Single T/ AV mode 1,200 - F8 U2 Continuous Autofocus T/ AV mode 1, 2100 F8 large birds in flight U3 Autofocus Single Small T/AV 1,200 -F8 U4 Autofocus Continuous Small T/ AV 1, 3000 - F8 Small birds in Flight Because i am in T/ AV Mode i can change the shutter spead with the front dial wheell and the Aperture with the rear dial wheel when necessary to get the proper Shutter Speed and Aperture to get a sharp photo Theses setting are for the Pentax K3Mark 111 camera with medium speed drive mode on the shutter and the Pentax 55-300 PLM WR 4.5- 6.3 Lens or the Pentax 150- 450 4.5 - 5.6 lens

I just came across your channel - wonderful stuff! Great information done with personality and humor. I’m a beginning photographer and I just recently bought a Canon R6 Mk 2 and the Canon 200-800 mm lens. You have a brand new subscriber, keep up the good work! Joe

I shoot with a Canon 5D MK IV and I get outstanding results at 6400 iso in good light and noise isn't an issue 99% of the time.

Awesome tips Trav, and love the images you use as examples 👏🔥

Great tips!

well, well..... more than questionable things....

Hello i have a d7500 with no motor in the Lens, how Can WE go go what to a Nikon Z something without selling my home in New Lens

This explains so much of the issues I'm having! Thank you so much Trav, looking forward to more content on here :)

Love looove looooove this, Trav!👏👏 As a beginner using a mirrorless for the first time EVER, being able to see the bird is a treasure LOL And yes! Realistic expectations - and I'd add avoiding unhealthy anxiety haha - are key when out there. It's a fantastic - yet challenging - learning journey we should all enjoy. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and experience with us!

Nice video - short and to the point 🙏👍

Really helpful suggestions. Thanks, Trav!!!!

Excellent! For birds in flight, would turning eye detection off help the camera autofocus lock on quicker? The youtube Whistling Wings Photography recommends turning eye detection off for birds in flight.

#3 - not always the case. Sometimes, it is nice to show the bird in its environment - for example, a Golden headed Cisticola in reeds alongside a riverbed.

Yes 🙂 And have photos too 👍

Thanks for a great video and welcome to TH-cam! I was a victim of the midday heat haze in my last outing. Never fails to get me

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