How to create a wildlife photography setup at home - Sony A7rlll - Sony 100-400 Gmaster
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During the lockdown period, me and the vast majority of the population are craving to be outside once again.
In this weeks video, I try my hand at wildlife photography and build a hide and set up in the back garden.
It's amazing how many different birds visited the set up over the 7 day period and I'll hopefully be able to attract a lot more over the coming months.
If you're enjoying this style of voice over videos, then please leave a comment in the comment section below.
Thanks for watching and until next weeks video,
be kind and stay safe.
Darren
My website www.darrenknightphoto.com
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As a retired movie producer; I want to congratulate you on making an effective, professional video. Which on TH-cam is extremely rare.
Thank you Harvey,
That’s very kind sir.
I’m simply blown away by the response to this video and I sincerely appreciate your comment
Best wishes and I hope you’re well
Agree 100%
Yes, it's a _very_ professional video.
Lovely quiet, calm, soothing, relaxing voice. Lovely!
Darren, Very nice step by step instruction on how to set up a birding station. The voice-over was great. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent, Beautiful Photos. Very informative and interesting. Many thanks for sharing.
Great inspiration for those not only starting out in bird photography but also wondering what we can do at home.
Thanks Peter 🍺
I was never bothered about bird photography but being forced into it with lockdown I now love it
Ditto chris, it’s very addictive and peaceful at the same time.
Have a great day mate 👍
Amazing shots. Very nicely done and more informative. Thank you. Lots of new and beautiful shots.
Wildlife Photography is definitely the hardest, yet it is by far the most rewarding!
I admire your patience Darren. Not aimed at us ladies with all those DIY skills & tools needed. Sadly my garden is not big enough. We gave up feeding the birds several years ago, as I can’t compete with my neighbour. He has a bird feeding station & many nesting boxes. The birds get through 2lb graited cheese a week, together with raisins,bird seed,sunflower hearts,fat balls & any other culinary delight for feather friends.I don’t think this is an area of photography for me.
As an enthusiast landscape photographer, I am struggling more than many, because I don’t do macro or intimate shot type photography either. I’m afraid I would not want any of it on my wall.
You have inspired many of your male subscribers I’m sure with this video which demonstrates what enthusiasm & determination can do.I can admire wildlife pictures & appreciate the hours of patience that has gone into the shot, but not for me. I am beginning to think I am the only one who is not photographing the cutlery, kitchen utensils & any other items round the house. This locked up & a chest infection is starting to get to me.Keep safe & well. Enjoy your feathered friends.
As someone looking to get into wildlife photography, learned something here.
Hi Juan,
It’s great fun and I hope you enjoy it as much I am.
Best wishes and stay safe 👍
your commentary made the video come to life! well done.
Super and informative film , thank you.
Behold... a perfect beginners video for bird photography in your garden. Subbed, liked and enjoyed thoroughly!
Hi Darren, amazing video. I am very excited to play around the backyard and Interac with birds and wildlife. Looking at the bird, their color, and their character It so fascinating to me. Love your pictures and the duck head while she takes a bath.
Outstanding video. Love the creativity of the scene. Pure genius. Thanks.
Great video Darren. You get lot of nice experiences and maked nice place to photographing birds. Nice work
Such a lovely video to watch, gave us so much pleasure,Mother Nature is a wonderful thing
Hi ya Pauline,
It really is.
I went for a sunrise walk this morning and the bird song was beautiful. The river was full of swans, geese, ducks and the sky was full of birds being complemented by a beautiful orange sky.
As you say, Mother Nature is wonderful.
Happy Easter and thank you for the kind comment 👋
Great video you have now got me out in the garden taking photos of birds 🦅 👍🏾
At 15:15 - I'm a wildlife photo nut, especially birds. As soon as I saw the duck cleaning itself I was shouting in my head *get ready!* -- get as close to water level as you can, switch to portrait orientation, put their head at the bottom of the frame, widen your field of view a little, punch up the shutter speed and wait for it. That stretching up and flapping the water off their backs will happen every single time when they're done with their bath. Well done!
You certainly know your stuff
Thanks for the kind comment 👍👍
I am glad that i clicked on your thumbnail ...very nice video
welcome to wildlife photography
Wow wow wow.... I really enjoyed this! Bravo!!!
Having a pond adds a great feature for wildlife photography. Hang some branches around or over the pond helps.
Very well done. Hope I had same yard like you, but don΄t. This is what love and passion for bird photography does...
thank you Darren for sharing this video i enjoyed , i am like you , landscape photographer , but in my country in Jordan not too much landscape places to photograph and also winter is the best time for composition , but in summer i move to birds photography with my tamron 150-600mm G2 and Canon 7D mark ii it is great composition of high speed focusing and high quality lens.
Very funny this video and the voice in off great! You are very lucky because have the nature in your house! And a little observatory in the garden too!!! Oh my god! Wow. To shots birds is necessary a lot of pacience, and you did it and your work to prepare the scenary have been incredible. Congrats for your shots, the ducks looks greats.
Hi Darren watched this last night. Very enjoyable. Similar to yourself I too used to consider Landscape my main subject but have found the pure joy that can be had in capturing images of garden birds. Well jell you have a duck too! The shot of the duck with a water hat was stunning! Well captured! Look forward to seeing more as time goes on.
Morning Donald
I hope you’re well during this crazy period we’re going through at the moment.
I don’t think I’ll see the ducks anymore this year, as they mated a few days after this video was shot, which normally ends the visits.
I’ve set up a new temporary hide in order to get low down shots and this has been great fun (the vid will be out in a few weeks).
I’m glad your enjoying the wildlife as much as the landscape. It really is good fun.
Take care bud and stay safe 👍
@@DarrenKnightPhoto Hi Darren, Thanks for replying really nice of you. Look forward to seeing next vid. Ps really enjoyed the pub vlog you all do. Was just like being down pub listening to a bunch of mates. Well done and keep safe.
I am a landscape photographer like you but seeing what you have done in your backyard has motivated me to get into wildlife photo which I toyed with a while back until I sold my long telephoto lenses. Watching how careful you constructed you outside "mini studio" has inspired me to get into again as we continue to stay home for now. I think I am going to spend some of my money in a long telephoto again and give it a try. Thank you again for sharing such a wonderful video. You have made my day with those beautiful photos. Don't stop. Post more of your videos with your great ideas. I just subscribed.
Day 164 The whole of UK are now wild life photographers during lock down and the hide now covers all land mass from the Cliffs of Dover in the south to Scotland in the north.
Great photos
Great video. Learnt a lot there. Keep them coming, many thanks Darren. 👍👍
Hi Steve,
I’m pleased you enjoyed it and got something from the video.
Take care mate and I hope you’re enjoying the glorious weather, albeit from home 😞
From one Darren to another that was a great video loved it from start to finish great narration too.
Tks a lot for your work. Great ideas, I'll work on them.
I TOTALLY agree! This genre of photography is certainly exciting. I've gotten into wildlife during the lockdown. Good job!
Hi Terrell,
There’s so many of us who have discovered wildlife photography during lockdown and that has to be a huge positive
Keep on clicking 👍
Thanks everyone
I’ve been blown away by the number of comments but I can assure you I’m working my way through the replies.
Best wishes and stay safe
Lovely video series :)
Cool video nice job thanks you for sharing
Good pictures, nice hide, good advice. Keep up the videos, and thanks
Hey! Darren...great inspirational work. Keep up the good work
Wonderful video. I love your humor. Awesome images.
Fantastic Darren, loved it.
Excellent video Darren.
Thank you Dennis,
I hope you’ve had a good Easter weekend 👍
Enjoying the voice over videos, it must be easier for you as well. I dont have a Garden so I rely on a Community Garden which due to lockdown isnt possible to visit at the moment but at least these videos will help to keep me inspired for the future. Thanks for sharing
Love from Pakistan..... Beautiful video, soothing voice and Amazing shots.
Brilliant mate, enjoyed every second of that.
My wife and I have been out collecting branches today, to try and set something up to lure in the birds.
We don't have such a lovely garden as yourself there, in fact we hardly have a garden lol. We are in a pit village full of terraced houses, and we never ever see any birds around here.
So I'm not holding out much hope, but Ive picked up some decent tips from this video that may help.
Lovely job, thank you 😉
Hi Pete,
If you build it they will come 😉
Good luck mate 🍺
Lol, nice one, great film mate 😉
Great video and very informative. Shots look great. Stay safe.
I’ve been taking pictures of birds for the last couple of years in it is absolutely beautiful to see all the beautiful birds out in nature and just enjoy the sounds that they make I am a small channel myself but I enjoy every minute of it enjoy this video as well
Hi Rudi
I’m a landscape photographer by heart but this is so addictive.
I agree with the beautiful sounds. Nothing beats a dawn chorus
Stay safe bud and best wishes 🍺
Patience and dedications pays off:)!
Nice homey presentation, but I wonder how Helen felt while she was working, he was outside playing. I also found it striking how he had everything he needed to create his blind and his feeding stations. I don’t think that most people would have that much just lying around. 😎 I’ll continue to watch his progress.
Nice one Darren, great film 📸👍
Great video, beautiful shots, and a stunning garden. Nice one Darren! 👊
Thank you SHOT BY COOPER
That’s very kind mate 👍
That's a superb video Darren, fascinating from start to finish. The filming, commentary and still shots were all first class, well done.
Amazing video and story told, really enjoyed watching this 👍
very sharp and perfect focus lens. Nice second hand lens ❤️
You did well maximizing your gear’s potential (reach) in your background set up. Your gear is not exactly Shabby, you know. That 200-400 GM zoom is one of the best zooms around. I’d felt like I’d died and gone to birder heaven with that kit. Did you crop much. Your Sony R body certainly gives you that latitude. Great work . 😊
Wonderful video. Lovely ideas and shots. Thank you for sharing it with us :)
Sweet
Beautiful pictures. Love your works.
God job Darren. Wildlife photography certainly gets addictive! You could try a feeder with sunflower hearts in it, the finches will love it. I got a Dyson patented feeder that has a clever design to keep the grey squirrels off it as they become a pest once they find you are putting food out. Enjoy the highs and lows of nature :-)
Really enjoyed this, lots of of inspiration. Thanks for sharing
put a bird bath! watching birds splash around is great fun.
Great video Darren. A lot of effort went into that and the results well deserved. You have some great backgrounds to use which is one of the most important things. Cheers Keith
Cheers Keith,
This is so much fun and if lockdown has taught me anything, it’s taught me that wildlife photography is a fantastic genre.
It’s extremely rewarding and a peaceful pastime to have in such a troubling times.
I’m really pleased you enjoyed the the video and thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
Take care bud and stay safe 👍
@@DarrenKnightPhoto your welcome mate, take care and stay safe.
Nice video, and idea during the lock down!!
Great video!! Great info!! Beautiful photos!!
Some great photos from your hard work in creating the set up at home.
I am going to do similar project in my garden.
Thanks for the video
thanks for the video. I got the same camera and lens just weeks ago. I live in Florida and have been studying wildlife photography for the last few weeks. Loved the photos you made,,,,thanks again
Very useful, nice and well put together video. Thank you.
Cool journey Darren, thanks for taking us with you on it! Photos look very nice.
Awesome vídeo Darren!!!
Creative and innovative! Congrats to a job well done!
Wow what a garden, has all the elements you need, water, trees for birds, places to chill and a cracking observatory. Big tick to the gardening ☆. Really well put together video, love the hide setup, I did hear someone else say poking some wide pipe out hide gets the birds used to a lens being there. That image of the duck with the vail of water over her head was fanastic.
I think the log would look better if the end was broken instead of cut, could see if you can find any deadfall when walking. Also lard is good for diy fatballs. Looking forward to seeing how things progress. Happy birding & Keep safe
Ps Espen Helland loves his garden birds.
Hi Jeff,
Now that I’m using the log as a feeding platform it’s taking quite a hammering and It’s getting quite worn already.
I know lockdown sucks (although I’m back to work) but the garden has given me so much pleasure over the last few weeks and I now look forward to getting home, cracking open a beer and have a few hours in the hide.
As the old saying goes “every cloud has a silver lining” and I can’t wait to get down to the river with the camera when lockdown is over.
Lockdown has really made me appreciate the joys of wildlife photography
Take care bud
You’re a kind soul. Keep doing what you’re doing. Thanks for the pep talk. 😀
Absolutely brilliant video mate, so detailed and the voiceover with the birdsong works a treat. Mind you it does help with building a hide when 'I'm just clearing out the shed' results in finding layers of plastic and serveral lengths of 2x4 rather than the three old pots of half used emulsion, a bucket of rusty screws and several boxes of old toys that are in my shed! 😂😂
I agree Gary, that was a hell of a shed to sort out, along with summerhouses & observatory, the garden looked a great lockdown space.
As wildlife junkie and photographer: Birds "use" other birds as protection "aid". Crows and their relatives are daring and very smart birds. If they are ok to hang out somewhere, smaller birds know it's relatively safe to go there too. Woodpeckers are birds like that too. When woodpeckers are around, you'll see lots of other birds. When the woodpecker see's you, the rest of the forrest (or garden) in like a square mile will know something is up from it's alarm call.
About the ducky, some type of birds will get at ease fairly quick even when they see you. if you just go about your thing and continue doing so, they quickly learn that to be the new "normal". common blackbirds have that habbit too. i regulairly have them trailing me for worms when i'm turning over the soil in my garden.
On the AF area, i usualy tend to work on flexible spot small, it can helps to quickly composite on the "rules of thirds" (or whatever other way of compositing a frame) by pre placing my focus point. Expandable flex is not a bad idea either (and the birds eye-af is nice in that mode). it gives you some more leaway.
I loved your video and i don't know why i never came up with this myself. Time to start my own hidden gem location like this! Thank you and keep enjoying life!
Morning Erwin,
What a fantastic comment and thank you for being so detailed.
Like you, I now mainly shoot flexible spot small and occasionally expand flexible spot, but to my knowledge, the A7R3 doesn’t have animal eye AF which is a real shame.
Thanks for all the useful tips and great explanation 👍
nice shots
That was a really lovely watch bud. One of best vlogs I’ve seen for ages. 👍
Is it as good as my choice of beer Jon? 😉
Thanks bud, that’s very kind 👍
Darren Knight Photo 😳
Well done you got some great shots. 😀
Thanks Andrew
And I hope you have a great weekend 👍
I just wanted to say thank you for such a really watchable and useful video. Oh, and great garden by the way!
Thanks John that’s very kind 👍
Have a great weekend 🍺
I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Thanks for sharing
High quality stuff.
Great presentation. I enjoyed viewing and got a lot of great ideas. Your video filled a niche--I'm also a landscape photographer getting excited about birding.
Nice photos and ideas. Good job!!
Thanks Darren, I really enjoyed watching this and I have enjoyed photographing the birds in my garden.
Great video Darren - a pleasure to watch ! Loved that last Robin picture 👍
Thanks John that’s very kind.
Yeah, I think the simple Robin is loved by most people. A beautiful little bird and I’m pleased to have captured it in good light.
Take care mate and stay safe 👍
Great video and brilliant photos, thank you ☺
Not just food but also water, shelter and native plants can bring in a plethora of wildlife into your yard. Right now the birds are choosing the danedlions and other berries over my sunflower seeds and other foods.
As a novice bird photographer, this video was very helpful. Many thanks for taking the time to compose it.
Thanks Darren, this is something I have done for years, and I liked the setup you made. For those of us with less DIY skill or just too lazy there is hope.
If you have a garden / yard setting up a feed and "Stage" outside a window can work as Darren did in his Man Cave. Another option is a hunter's blind which is no more than a camo tent with no bottom and blackout coating on the inner walls. The nice thing is it is portable and you don't need the permission of your partner to build a semi permanent structure.
Absolutely great idia.
@Darren Knight Photo it's all about being patient isn't it? Good job! I have been manly busy in my darkroom (shed!) and uploading videos on my TH-cam channel dedicated to film photography!
Absolutely enjoyed this DIY setup & backyard wildlife shoot. Your narration is excellent. Kudos!
Morning Adedotun,
Thank you, that’s very kind.
Have a great weekend and Stay safe bud 🍺
Enjoyed this very much.
Fun video! You've given me lots of ideas.
Great stuff...very inspiring to do different photo ideas....👍
Excellent and very informative. Also a very good video
Great video. My wife has been feeding the wildlife in our backyard for the last 14 years. She has established a wide variety of birds and a few critters too. We take a shot every now and then when we see something interesting but your video has inspired me to take it a step further. Thanks for the inspiration! Looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Lovely garden mate
Fantastic video and brilliant creativity. I'm pretty new to wildlife photography and I absolutely love it. Normally it gets you out and about in wonderful countryside but obviously for now it's whatever comes my way in the garden or whilst out on a walk from home. As long as you keep your expectations fairly grounded you won't go wrong. I liken it to fishing in a way, even if you don't get a killer shot it's just nice to be enjoying your surroundings, but then when you do get a shot you're proud of it is so rewarding! I was treated to a couple of Red Kites soaring over my house recently and got some really excellent shots. Just keep an eye out and you never know. I've been feeding birds in my small garden for several weeks now and slowly all the locals soon discover where to eat regularly. I've been contemplating a more natural perch set up and you've pushed me to explore what I can do.
Now, birds in flight is a genre all on its own in my opinion, challenging but exciting all the same. Enjoy yourself and I look forward to watching your videos.
Great idea to help stay positive during these challenging times. Well done !!!
Jarekthroughthelens Thank you and thanks for watching.
I hope you’re having a good Easter 👍
@@DarrenKnightPhoto I really like your idea and all the way you went through to get them a few shots. I would like to do the same in my garden however unfortunately is not big enough so I will stick with makro photography for now. Just waiting for new lens for it. Is coming on Tuesday. We all have to survive this time in some way. Thanks for Easter wishes and I hope you're having good Easter as well.
TOPTOPTOP!
great video.... thanks for sharing brother Darren :)