Bird Photography Tips: My Mini Project for Spring (With a Canon 1DX and 500mm f/4 Lens)
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- Bird Photography Tips: My Mini Project for Spring. I'm using a Canon 1DX and 500mm f/4 Lens to capture nest building behaviour on a local pond. Watch me in real time as I share my tips and techniques in the field. I'll even show you how to avoid numb-bum!
Filmed with Canon M50 and 15-45mm lens.
Equipment: Canon 1DX Mark i; Canon 500mm f/4 Mark i lens; Induro CT404 tripod; Manfrotto MVH502AH fluid head
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Great video like the new style keep them coming
Thank you Paul , love this video , you really are the best.
Thank you my friend.
Great video loved the format keep it up
Hi Paul love this video. I look forward to the next one. best wishes
Liked the new style, and the layout.
Brilliant. Thank you very much Martyn.
Love this style. Though it's about the picture its the video that tells the story. Behavior of wildlife is amazing.
Yep, that's what I wanted. Thank you!
Really liked this style, great to see the thinking behind the photography, Cheer keep up the good work. 👍👍
Your channel was the first wildlife photography channel I subbed to, I've learnt alot from you in the last 18months and put it into practice. This style of wildlife vlogging is something I've been meaning to do at my local lake , the only issue is it is a very public area , and until we are allowed to travel about further will have to put it on hold.
Enjoy your content thank you. Atb Joe
Thank you so much Joe. I wish you all the best with your own projects.
Love this style of video as well as your other style. You are building up quite an arsenal to offer your viewers!! Keep up the great work!
many thanks Rick!
Another good one Paul. The B roll was informative, the B roll I am not into is people spending half of the vlog walking around. Where I am in Ohio I am spending my time walking around with binocks looking for the migrant birds coming back and starting nesting.
Liked the video and this style. I usually have my 2x teleconverter on my 500mm f4 as I think you can never be too close. 👍
I wish I had a lot of time to sit around waiting the bird shot,..lol !
Working full time limits my time in the field, so going to busy park were there's are use to humans is a big advantage to me .
It would be my luck as I sat down, I would knock the $7000 camera/lens/tripod in the pond !
Lol. Imagine how I feel when I take it in the water in chest waders.....
Like the format Paul its given me some ideas at a local lake in the National Forest West Mids
I like this one, it's a bit more about the animals, watching their behaviour, telling a bit of a story, very nice to watch!
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Throw some sticks in open water. The coots might go for it.
yeah, I did do it actually!
Love this! Thank you!
Enjoyed that Paul, thanks for posting
Brilliant video as always
Hi Paul. Many thanks for your very enjoyable videos. Question : I use the Canon 500 mm f 4. like you but with a 5Dmk4. Do you microadjust your lenses. I think mine front focus a bit.
I've had to adjust in the past. My 1DX seemed spot on with the lens. I've never changed anything. Funnily enough I had to micro-adjust with my 1D mkiv. Quite a lot.
Great video as per usual mate.
Good job Paul, enjoyed it.
Hi paul, Love your videos. I have the 7d mark ii and the 400 5.6 and I'm having a lot of difficulty getting super sharp photos unless I'm really close to the subject. Any suggestions?
It might depend how close. If too far away and crop down, they will never look sharp.
I liked , thanks..
Hi Paul I notice you have a different foot on your lens, may I ask what make and why did you change?
It's a Kirk plate - which fits straight onto most gimbal heads (arca swiss style) instead of having to add a plate to the original foot. But now I use this manfrotto head - I need a plate anyway!
Why was you using the Manfrotto fluid head and not a gimbal do you find the fluid head better like the video
I use it for both stills and video. About to film a review on it today!
Love coots under rated bird great for behavioural shots , normally quite shy near me ! Well done for getting that close 👍😍
Thoroughly enjoyed this video, nice mix of movement and stills.
We have in Florida an American Coot too, looks about the same. Enjoyable easy going vlog. 👍🙂
Im debating on saving up for that 500mm but a 600 sounds nice. Since the verson two and the 600mm are so pricey. I have the 400mm f5.6 at the moment awesome lens. Do you still ise the same 500mm? Or did you get a newer version?
I still have the old 500mm yes.
Hi Paul female foot stomping hmm where have i seen that before lol ( behave yourself ) . Nothing wrong with the new style just as funny and looking forward to seeing how it all pans out. Until next time take care and stay safe my friend.
Another great video Paul love your thinking and attitude is spot on👌keep them coming 👍
Are you trying to say that female coot is a bit of a slapper?
Haha!!
Coots are common even in my country!
I was out photographing great spotted woodpecker near Lochgair and a roe deer and a fox eating something in a field on our way there at 7am
I really enjoyd this type of video. Looking forward to the next.
Yes I like the style of what you have done there and would like to see more like that.
Like the change up in style and appreciate the reminder that you don’t always get what you set out to do, I think you should come back to this location several more times til you get the exact shot you were looking for (don’t give up too easily). I am curious as to whether there was an opportunity to shoot from the other side of the pond where the Coots we getting the material and maybe it was clearer from there and since you had 700mm to work with seems like you could manage to fill the frame...
Thanks Dennis. Really difficult shooting - so I can get quite close to where they were getting material but it's always against bright water and more in to the light. There's also trees in the way!
Animal behaviour is one of my favourite subjects, did a diploma in it years back and have a couple of good books if you’re interested... I got an Egret foot stomping in my last video to shoo the fish up from the pond floor, great to watch..No one wants numbum in the whole area 😫😳😫😂.. Great vlog shots and footage and well presented as always buddy enjoyed that!!!
Oh, the Egret foot thing is amazing isn't it. I've watched it too! Cheer matey, always appreciate your support.
@@PaulMiguelPhotography No probs buddy, love the vids, food for the soul 😉
Thank you Mr Miguel. Beautiful.
Cheers Jim.
I like this style, quite fun to watch..
I love observing animal behaviour. This video is right up my street. Keep up the good work.
Really glad you enjoyed this. I've had some amazing feedback on this video.
And when the wife, stamps her feet!
Good stuff Paul. Like the style and the thought behind this series (?). I'm going to have to find somewhere similar I think - I'm inspired! - now that the weather is getting a wee bit warmer. Location finding is one of the hardest things for me to be honest - somewhere close to home but not on busy dog walker trails. Ill keep searching 😊
Nice to hear from you Alan. It's so hard to find the right location. My main solution is just to go there early morning.. although you can still get the dog walkers!
Yes, keep doing videos like this. Enjoyed it. What about putting on hip waders and getting in - to get around the reeds?
Thank you. I may get in the water in some locations, but probably not this one!
Really enjoyed this, looking forward to more. Great job!!!
Cheers Tim!
Hi there, Paul! Great footage. Coot was actually my very first bird portrait (as in: actual close-up shot) I managed to capture. Coots are kind of unique in that they are very friendly looking, specifically their beaks are shaped such that they always look (to me anyway) as though they're smiling all the time. Also their immensly long (in relation to their body) fingers look sort of unusual. They also seem very trustful, at least when you try to feed them. They are way less timid than, say, mallards, a specie that is so common here. It's a shame coots are actually white-tailed eagles' most favorite food :( At least here in Poland. If you care to take a look, I've recently also managed to capture some behaviour, namely goldeneyes! My flickr is 'pawelswildlifephotos'. Best regards Paul!
Hi Paul, fascinating video as ever - thanks so much for posting. I definitely like this style and am looking forward to seeing how the coot nest develops over the coming weeks. One point, and I do stand to be corrected on this, the reed bunting was perched on a plant called reed mace, rather than bull rush I think. I learnt that from the late great angling writer, photographer and fisherman John Wilson.
Yessir, very good approach with the behavior emphasis! Carry on! Cheers and all that...right! I believe I will go looking for some American Coots at...
lots of great views , super tips and the little fun bits round this out nicely :)
Thanks for that Doug!
Like the new format following you from concept through to execution. Looking forward to seeing your final image / video if the coots give you opportunity.
Enjoyable to see how you set up for this, and good to know I'm not the only one that can spend 2 hours failing to get the shot they want. I did something similar with some grebes last year, photographing the nest building, eggs and then the chicks growing up. I got really attached to them.
Really enjoyed that! Its not often we get a chance to slow down and watch a fairly common species. Very interesting!
Nice one Paul. It shows the thought process into 'getting the shot'. Patience is certainly a virtue when trying to achieve your objective.
Another great video. I always enjoy them. I like this style. It good to see how it plays out in “real time”
Thank you. I suspect at least some viewers will find this helpful, seeing how you set up, listening to your explanation of what you were shooting for, and even expressing the frustration we all face sometimes while trying to get "that" certain image. I was amused watching this after I returned home this afternoon -- I was doing something very similar, having made my way through thick brush to the edge of a pond with the intent of getting images of some Northern Shovelers -- a type of duck in the U.S. -- going through their courtship rites. Keep up the good work, sir!
Sounds great - ducks have some fascinating courtship.
I like conversational videos where it’s first person and feel your chatting with me. Having both clearly a story video and technical videos are best. I do like you sharing the exposure settings on the pictures you show.
thanks for the feedback Gary.
Very interesting just goes to show that you have to put the time in to hopefully get what you want.
Thank you Phil.
It's the red power of castles which tells us where to find what we want to buy. Going next to a grave or the butcher is not much difference in the sense of a vast beach. Damaging your neck is rather interesting as you can gain some bright patches under your boat.