BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY 101: Beginners guide for settings, finding birds, tricks, equipment, and more!
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Join me for this detailed look at how to start off in the hobby of bird photography. Not only do I explain the fundamentals of how to find and photograph birds, I teach you what time of day to look for birds, how to get closer to them, what settings to use, what to look for in a camera/lens combination, and even how to process bird pics. I'll also share some of my favorite techniques for better and more artistic bird photos.
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Mr. d`Entremont, you`re not just... one of the best photographers, but also one of the best teachers in photography! Thank you for sharing to us your great experiences!
Wow, thank you!
I'm only four minutes into this video but already I've learned something : a couple of days ago I saw an Osprey sitting at the top of a dead tree. He pooped and immediately took off. I never put 2 and 2 together until I watched this video, i.e., pooping = takeoff ! Thanks , Simon. Now back to the video. :)
excellent!
In contrast to your experience, i had a completely different behaviour, in my case it was a Goliath Heron, taking off and pooping in mid-air and i had that accidentally captured, and I was like WTH 😂
But yeah, about the video, i learned a lot. Thank you, Simon. 🙂
I do the same. I first poop and then take off. Doing the other way around is problematic :)
Really... this is where you figured it out :-) You never figured it out parking under a tree or power line???
Thank you so much...
Your presentations are perfect! As a retired teacher I love it when presenters speak quickly enough to avoid boredom and you are spot on. Your expertise, your presentation, your vast knowledge, and willingness to share are phenomenal!Thank you so much! Please keep producing these videos… suddenly I’m excited to be retired and able to pursue my love of bird photography because now I have the guidance I needed! ( The transcript is a wonderful addition.. one I’ve
Never seen before. You’re covering every learning modality! I enjoyed watching and reading to release some of the information in my mind.
I'm 67 yo and I've been at this for about 3 years now and watch many videos to help me gain skills. Most of what you said in this video is pretty simple, but it's like I've heard all of this for the first time, and I've learn a great deal for you. Thank you for doing this for us!
Good stuff!
You are a genius, sir. Even if people don't want to photograph birds, they still learn something from this video, be it the Lightroom editing, necessary equipment, or the camera settings. I really appreciate you taking the time to share your expertise in these videos.
Came back to watch this again. As a retired teacher I appreciate your clear, concise presentation. Thanks for this primer. BTW, loved seeing you on Thomas Heaton's video this weekend!! Have a wonderful day!
He is an amazing teacher! I liked all his videos I've seen so far. My new photographer coach.
I’ve learned more from you in two weeks than I’ve learned from a variety of others in the past 2 years😅 excellent content
Great to hear!
I started watching this video holding my remote with the intention of fast-forwarding. instead, I started to take notes. Your videos are always informative.
Glad it was helpful!
I am a newbie here, can I use my m50 mark ii for bird photography?, also I was planning to buy a mount adapter for the ef lens, then saw this viltrox speed booster, is that good? As you mentioned in your video I was firstly going to buy a full-frame camera but instead, I planned to invest more in the lens.
Most valuble thing youtube gave this year is this channel
Thanks very much!
The Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage
Alright Monty. 😂
I got my camera for video, and accidentally discovered I’m very interested in wildlife photography 😆 thanks for the incredibly informative video.
Good luck!
Your photos are really breathtakingly beautiful...
So pro! Loved the way you taught.
Absolute legend. Demystifying these things and wanting everyone to be able to take good photos.
Love how this guy breaks down his clips and makes it sound so simple (of course it isn't and it's a learning process). You can also tell he really cares about the wildlife and is passionate about being a photographer
Thanks very much!
Todd, I’m working on a video course for wildlife photography. Can I use your comment in promotional material, with attribution?
I'm from 1970's England. I'm definitely watching this ! 😊
Thank you so much! I’m thinking of starting bird photography soon, and your video quelled a lot of my worries and made things a lot easier to understand.
Go for it!
Please share the general meta data alongside the photo when displaying your photos. theyre amazing and those numbers are great insight!
One of the best videos about photography I’ve ever seen, not only regarding shooting birds but in general. Learned so much. Thanks a bunch, Simon!
Honestly, this is one of the more well put together videos for bird photography tips that I've watched as someone who still has been birding/photographing for under a year. I think I've been following most of the tips mentioned pretty well aside from the lightroom tips which I'll definitely have to try out! Thanks for the well thought out video.
I've just recently stepped into this as a hobby. But of all of the channels I've watched, I believe you break it down best for me.
Thank you for making these videos.
Welcome aboard!
You certainly have a way of delivering your message so that it is informative, interesting, and entertaining for me the viewer. Well done and thank you very much.
This is my second video of yours I have watched. I have learned more this morning than I did in an entire semester of photography class at my college.
My spark of joy for photography has returned 😁
Welcome aboard!
My favourite channel on these days... thank you for all the quality content and clear presentation!
Wow, thank you!
One of the best videos about photography I’ve ever seen, not only regarding shooting birds but in general. Learned so much. Thanks a bunch, Simon! 👌
Simon .. you are a legend ..
Too kind!
Thank you for this great information!
Glad it was helpful!
I love photographing birds but have lots to learn. This was such a concise, practical and helpful video! Thank you for your tips from beginning to end! I’ll be watching for more!
You are an incredible teacher. The best I've seen online. Your explanations and examples make learning so much more fun. Thank you for sharing your expertise to us, and for understanding that we are not in competition, we are helping each other be our best! THANK YOU!
BEST! I just got a MFT panasonic leica 50-200mm (100-400)and i'm really excited to shoot birds hehe. you are a big inspiration to me and this video helps a lot! thanks simon!
Canon EOS 2000d + 75-300 kit lens, started this christmas and took some nice pictures, I posted some on instagram
He certainly knows his photography and wildlife photography. More importantly he is fantastic at explaining everything in a clear and concise way.
Thanks very much!
Peter, I’m working on a video course for wildlife photography. Can I use your comment in promotional material, with attribution?
@@simon_dentremont You certainly can. You are an outstanding communicator and explain everything so clearly. I have recommended your RUclips channel to many people. Thanks.
@@petera8742 thanks!
I am so pleased I've discovered your channel. I have watched all your videos and found them invaluable, especially this one. I am relatively new to bird photography, approximately 2 years and your content is informative and inspiring. Thank you.
You are so welcome! thanks so much for saying so!
Simon: I just want thank you for sharing your expertise!! 💯
This man is awesome. I don't even like birds that much. I just appreciate listening to people who know what they're talking about. It's a rare thing these days.
That’s so kind!
You are the best I’ve seen at explaining photographic techniques.
A thousand thanks for making nature photography easy to understand.
My pleasure!
Leonard, I’m working on a video course for wildlife photography. Can I use your comment in promotional material, with attribution?
The definitive guide for bird photography. Thank you for putting the video out.
Glad it was helpful!
I have been working on bright sunlight photos for fun and made sure I was taking the bright light on the birds that came at an angle. Today I got such clear photos of a raven on my back fenceline and a Spotted Towhee on the Ivy. I also got an inflight very clear photo of a raven in flight with the back of the bird, both wings outstretched...in the front of ivy. The settings I used were 1/1600 shutter, F6.3 and 400 ISO with a Nikon D5300, 70mm to 300mm Nikkor lens. You can see every feather! So happy I have been watching your videos! I typically use F8 for morning and evening shots of birds. I am improving so fast!! Thank you so much Sir! You are helping so many people up their talent and enjoy this form of art!
I am so happy I found your channel. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Invaluable advice presented in a simple, yet effective way. From an aspiring birder: thank you very much, Simon!
thank you Simon .. your presenting is very clear and informative. 🙌📸
Thank you so much for making this video. I love the way you get straight to the point and tell it like it is.
Welcome!
Your photography is impressive!!!!
This guy is amazing, I'm learning so much thanks to this gentleman
Your photos are extremely vivit and full of details. I am impressed. Your explanation is precise and just to the points without so not nutricious emply words. Hope to see more of your experiences and learn more from you. Thanks.
Wow, thank you!
Hi Simon. I live in Namibia in southern Africa with loads of good photo opportunities. I am a complete beginner at 47. Thank you for being a breath of fresh air in the youtube world. There is no pretentiousness or constant selling of some product in your videos and the advice is simply excellent Sir! You have my deepest gratitude for this perfect content.
Thanks very much!
Thank you Simon, I have been using your techniques for a number of years and it always seems to make my photography better...I really appreciate your time and effort in making these videos. Personally I believe you have the best videos on RUclips..
When my day is boring and i see your videos i git happy
Simon, I just ran across one of your videos and am hooked and began looking at some of the others. Besides your presentation style and production (I like that you get right to each point but without seeming rushed), you are providing me with both some new tips as well as validating a few things I have found out by myself, but have not seen in other videos yet. Looking forward to your next ones on bird and nature photography! And you may get me interested in astrophotography as well!
Awesome, thank you!
Another master class, thanks!
My pleasure!
Your video is a great intro into bird photography. Appreciate your providing a great deal of information on this topic.😊
So nice of you
That explanation of metering, exposure compensation at the 15:04.0 mark was perfect. It's applicable in every instance of stark contrast between subjects and backgrounds, tunnels, compositions with framing, etc.
Great video! Thanks for taking your time to help us new to the hobby.
No problem 👍
This is fantastic , Thank you so much , This video shows how much care and effort you give for photographing birds .
So nice of you
Omg! knew I clocked a fellow maritimer when you started speaking. Love the video
Howdy Simon! I just found your channel. I learned a lot from this video. Thank you so much!
Welcome!
After using Lightroom for 10 years (mostly for light editing since I shoot mostly news and sports) I've been recently hooked on bird photography and just found out how to mask! hahaha Thank you so much for your videos! Straight to the point :D
Excellent video - so full of great information.
Thank you for your generosity and sharing your wisdom and experience.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the tips on buying a camera that is what i was amming for
but I learned so much about bird fotography you Sir are a great instructor Master!!
Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I found myself a a bird sanctuary with only my Sigma 17 mm lens and Sony ZVE1. I had been dreaming of making the trip with the Sigma 150-600 and Sony A7IV. Instead of sulking, I realized Sandhill cranes are so big, the wide-angle could work. I do believe your channel is helping me to focus less on gear lust, and more on the love of photography. I have learned so much about bird and squirrel behavior though photographing them.
I just shared this on my Facebook page as the best introductory video on bird photography I've ever seen. It is both very comprehensive and very clear, and it touches on each of its many topics without digressions or unnecessary detail. Also, one doesn't often get a discussion of how to approach birds in videos in this genre. Well done!
Wow, thank you!
Roger, I’m working on a video course for wildlife photography. Can I use your comment in promotional material, with attribution?
For sure! Very happy to endorse your work!
Great site. You have presented more subtle tips in this video that I have never seen discussed in any other videos. It would be great if you could walk us through your editing process on one of your tougher raw photos from beginning to end. How you handle white balance, sharpening, noise reduction etc.
Glad it was helpful! I’m getting a fair number of requests for that, so I expect I’ll do one some day.
You have a voice for radio and a demeanor for cool guy
Thanks for the tips you gave
Seriously good content. Color me subscribed! (edit: I learned more here in 27 minutes than I did in the last two months watching videos about bird photography)
Awesome, thank you!
Great content. I'm very new to bird photography and this will help very much. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you.
Welcome aboard!
Excellent video. Thank you for your time and knowledge sharing!
My pleasure!
So many useful informations are beeing told here that i can't even count them. I think that every wildlife photographer can find a piece od informations for themselfs... I know i did🙂
This video is amazing! After watching your milky way tutorial, I would love to see a follow-up of this video in the same fashion where you run through the settings you are using for the situation step by step and take us from 0 to bird shooting pro! I think laying out a sort of "guide" and seeing you follow through with it would greatly help us new wildlife photographers take the information in this video and be able to more readily apply it to our own photoshoots.
thanks for the suggestion!
This is the best instructional video I've came across for bird photography by far. I would love to see more instructional content in this format. I look forward to watching your channel grow! Cheers from a fellow east coaster :)
Thanks Jeremy! More to come!
Jeremy, I’m working on a video course for wildlife photography. Can I use your comment in promotional material, with attribution?
@@simon_dentremont no problem at all!
Simon, I love how your channel is about technique and photo content, not unboxing and equipment comparisons.
Thanks very much!
That's a masterclass for everyone. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge with those of us starting out. I was under the impression that if I am to be a "real photographer" I must do so without the use of post processing software, in the same vein of "Real singers don't use auto-tune". I have over 20 years of experience with Photoshop and seeing you use Lightroom for tasteful enhancement is a breath of fresh air!
Maybe the best video i have watched. ❤
I'm glad to see you agree that knowing and respecting your subject is more important than having new gear.
GAS hurts photography. It doesn't make you a better photographer.
Best photography tutorials on YT!
I am bored with conventional photography subjects; so instead I now photograph farts using a Thermal-Imaging Camera
This is an awesome video! Thank you so much for sharing your expertise!
Glad it was helpful!
you just changed my entire editing process, for the better....thank you so so so much!
Glad I could help!
Thanks very much for such a useful and excellent video…
Wow ... a LOT of buckshot in a single shell - excellent narration with proper illustration. Nicely done, old man. JR
thanks for sharing your knowledge it is a great help
for a new bird Photographer the simple tips are always
the best Cheers
Glad you think so!
Great video! Thank you
I just viewed this video. I got into bird photography last year and found your information extremely helpful. Thank you!
I'm only partway through this video but I wanted to mention the Merlin app. When out looking, and listening, for birds, Merlin's Sound ID feature is a great way to determine what birds are around you. Then you can start trying to spot them. That is how my wife and I finally got to see Ovenbirds.
Great tip!
Ah man what a vid
Point on point
& no brand loyalty
Top class Simon
This was all extremely helpful and so lear. Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Your video is amazing! I'm getting into bird photography and have watched a few of your videos. I will now be watching them all! Oh, and I've now subscribed as well. 😀
Welcome aboard!
This video has given me the confidence to even attempt any of this
Very helpfull information. And also Cristal clear . Thanks
Thank you so much for the tips on where to find birds in my area and getting to know their behaviors, etc. Very helpful!🙂
Excellent, one of the best instructional videos I've seen.
Thank you for your all recommendations for bird photography.
My pleasure!
you give some great common sense tips. thank you for posting!
Glad it was helpful!
What a delightful, informative and stress-free presentation. Thank you so much!
Ok I was thinking of you while taking pictures of 3 whales this morning! One is a shot of an eagle in front the whale like it is watching it which is the interest in composition you refer to.... Unfortunately as you have told us to get the best lenses, I didn't have it! I had to use my Nikkor 70mm to 300mm and got decent but not spectacular shots! Have to get to the beach as we are 280 feet up. Happy to get better pics using settings I learned from you!
Unbelievable video. Hard to believe this content is free. Thank you
Thanks I will try it
Hi Simon, I am Ivan from India Mumbai presently living in Dubai UAE. I just love watching your videos they are full of knowledge and easy to understand... Thank you for sharing your tips and ideas it helps so much...
So nice of you