Photographing Florida Wildlife - is a 70-300mm long enough? No it's not.

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
  • Today I'm trying to take photos of wildlife with a 70-300mm lens. Turns out that I don't think it's long enough. I'm going to get a longer lens.

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  • @RMFStudio
    @RMFStudio Год назад +5

    Awsome shots bro, i recently bought a 70-300mm too and now searching some cool shots on youtube just like you did

  • @billwhelan869
    @billwhelan869 Месяц назад +1

    I really enjoyed your video. It was clear, well paced and you have a great speaking voice.. Which longer lens did you finally settle on and are you happy with the glass upgrade?
    What do yo like most and what don’t you enjoy the most out of the longer lens?
    Keep shooting…and talking about it. It’s almost like we were in Florida with you.
    Good luck!
    Will

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  Месяц назад

      Thanks! I ended up getting the Sony 200-600. I do like that lens but it’s so heavy. I always need a monopod with it and when walking trails it becomes annoying. The 70-300 is so much smaller and lighter. But I still use the 200-600 because of the reach. I can see why some wildlife photographers choose to do a micro 4/3 system instead of full frame because they can get something like a 200-600 without the lens being so big. Also I typically don’t take my 200-600 out that much because it’s so big. But the image quality is great on it. I’m still glad I have it.

    • @CC-gt3ro
      @CC-gt3ro 19 дней назад

      @@JayMacroPhotos or you can get a 50-400 with a 61mp camera to shot apsc mode and even crop further to 8mp. The photo should be still very good.

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  19 дней назад

      @@CC-gt3ro yeah I have considered upgrading to a higher mp camera. I might do that during end of year sales.

  • @dr.chungusphd108
    @dr.chungusphd108 Месяц назад +1

    I learned that as well, so I bought a 150-600mm still love my 70-300mm EF tho.

  • @humanelements2
    @humanelements2 3 месяца назад +1

    I honestly really like the images here. 70-300mm isn't enough for a classic tight-cropped wildlife portrait but you did make some fantastic environmental portraits. Great use of negative space as well with the alligator head crossing the water at 4:40.

  • @stefanstefan566
    @stefanstefan566 18 дней назад +1

    its so much fun to watch the video, and i think the focal le nght looks amazing in your style. whats the brand of it?
    #9 looks outstanding while #2 brings in so much peace by catching the flight.

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  18 дней назад

      @@stefanstefan566 thanks! I’m using Sony brand. A7iii for camera

  • @ActionXander
    @ActionXander Год назад +1

    Sick photos dude! Doing our Everglades wildlife some justice with your photography. I'm also looking at grabbing a 70-300 for my Panasonic

  • @Willy_LGM
    @Willy_LGM 5 месяцев назад +1

    I really like #4! Great photos!

  • @TheBionicbone
    @TheBionicbone 6 месяцев назад +2

    Great live demo and showing settings on the camera screen. Im still wondering how you manage to set everything so quickly, nature has moved on by the time im set up 😂

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  6 месяцев назад

      Yeah I do miss some shots because I’m not fast enough but most times I leave ISO and aperture where I set it and only change shutter to make it faster. Sometimes that means shooting at higher ISO just to have that flexibility. I could probably put that on auto but I’ve never tried that. I like having full control.

  • @David_Quinn_Photography
    @David_Quinn_Photography 6 месяцев назад +1

    amazing photos, 300mm is hard for waterfowl but very doable I used a 100-300 on my 12mp Canon camera years ago and I have many keeper photos but obviously I also had many photos get tossed after cropping due to it being too low res.

  • @CC-gt3ro
    @CC-gt3ro 21 день назад +1

    for i would say city wildlife, zoo it is ok. i have a 70-300, 450 en video and you get nice shot. For full wildlife, i bet you need minimum 600, or 800.

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  21 день назад

      Oh definitely city and zoo are good environments for this lens.

  • @evilwoodchuck
    @evilwoodchuck 5 месяцев назад +3

    But it is long enough if you take a full frame 70-300 lens and put it on a APS-C camera, then you get 450mm

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  5 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah that’s definitely better

    • @mees8211
      @mees8211 4 месяца назад

      Thats what i will do

    • @mees8211
      @mees8211 4 месяца назад

      What do you think about mft sensor camera like olympus?

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  4 месяца назад

      @@mees8211 I haven’t tried those but I would think they have some good reach

    • @CC-gt3ro
      @CC-gt3ro 19 дней назад

      You can use apsc on full frame camera too. My a7c still give me 10mp more than my 32 inch 4k screen and print very well at 8x11 and 5x7

  • @ethanrod7968
    @ethanrod7968 Год назад +4

    But remember tho on apsc cameras it has a 1.5x crop or 1.6x canon crop so it would be about 105-450

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  Год назад

      That’s true. Much better on a crop sensor.

  • @surimakhloga30
    @surimakhloga30 7 месяцев назад +1

    Hi very nice..... I'm learning photography...i want to ask you one thing that you are not bothering about the exposure meter which is most of the time -3 or -7 while clicking pictures..... I always try to keep setting the exposure meter to 0.0 in each and every shot....which is annoying at times....pls advise is this necessary to keep exposure 0 all the time??

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  7 месяцев назад

      Actually I do that on purpose. I typically expose it around -1 and then do post processing later. It’s for highlights.

  • @nashpiano.7295
    @nashpiano.7295 8 месяцев назад +1

    I have a canon crop. Between the 70-300 L, a sigma 100-400, or a 150-600mm - which would be the best option for landscape and wildlife?

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  8 месяцев назад

      I personally would go for the 150-600 and then also have one wide lens just in case you want a drastic wide view for landscape.

    • @nashpiano.7295
      @nashpiano.7295 8 месяцев назад

      @@JayMacroPhotos I’m thinking of probably doing that. The only thing is would I be missing out on much below 150mm in terms of telephoto landscape photography (240mm on my camera)?

    • @nashpiano.7295
      @nashpiano.7295 8 месяцев назад

      Also is there not much benefit of the 70-300mm L in terms of IQ and stuff compared to the other two?

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  8 месяцев назад

      I tend to lean toward more reach because I like wildlife a little more than landscape but if you are the opposite and you like landscape more, then I could see using the 100-400 as a good mid ground. The reason I would go with the 150-600 is because the 70-300 just didn’t reach enough for me with wildlife so I got a 200-600 and I really like that lens.

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  8 месяцев назад

      I’ve owned one canon L lens before switching to Sony and it was great quality. I’m not sure the quality of the 150-600. You’ve probably already tried this but Dustin Abbott does really great reviews on lenses and You could probably find both those lenses on his channel. But if you are doing landscape then you’ll more than likely be around the f8 range which most lenses look good at that aperture. I think the L glass really comes into play if you shoot at the lower end like f2.8 for edge sharpness. So you might not need that kind of quality doing Landscape at f8. But that’s just my opinion though. Others might say differently.

  • @boulderdash2000
    @boulderdash2000 Год назад +1

    #1 and #10 for me. Greetings

  • @kiettran0505
    @kiettran0505 Год назад +1

    Very nice video!

  • @tigerlilly522ify
    @tigerlilly522ify 6 месяцев назад +1

    You have the lens in the title but what's the camera ? Thank you

  • @koziebiero
    @koziebiero Год назад

    Nice one my friend.

  • @ICyfish
    @ICyfish Год назад +1

    what camera didnyou use?

  • @nickreid5939
    @nickreid5939 5 месяцев назад +1

    No #2 and No#8

  • @Handyfritze0711
    @Handyfritze0711 5 месяцев назад

    What Camera did you use?

  • @pitthe7676
    @pitthe7676 8 месяцев назад

    Were the photos taken in manual mode?

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  8 месяцев назад

      No these were autofocus

    • @pitthe7676
      @pitthe7676 8 месяцев назад

      @@JayMacroPhotos But I didn't just mean focus, I also meant shutter speed and aperture

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  8 месяцев назад

      @@pitthe7676 oh sorry, no I shot in manual so I set all of that myself.

  • @BJ-cy1bx
    @BJ-cy1bx 5 месяцев назад +1

    Please…it’s Heron. Not herring.

    • @JayMacroPhotos
      @JayMacroPhotos  5 месяцев назад

      Oh haha thanks! I didn’t realize I said it wrong.

  • @mmadden_fishing
    @mmadden_fishing 5 месяцев назад

    camera name?

  • @pollypowell415
    @pollypowell415 2 года назад

    2 and 6