A great step by step explanation, Kevin. One change I would suggest for the placement of feet, is that I feel it is best when the expected flight path is known, to position the stance more to where the bird is going to travel to rather than to where it starts from. Thus, when reaching the firing position, my body is set much more comfortably and more stable. I also use this type of stance when taking the series of frames for creating a panorama photograph.
Hi Kevin, this is the 1st video I've seen of yours and I have to say I'm blown away. Amazing images and footage. I'm about to upgrade to the R6mkii and the RF100-500mm and your advice has been extremely useful. I've really struggled on the R7 with the pulsing focus on the sigma 150-600mm so using the Canon rf lens is a no brainer. Looking forward to watching your past content and future adventures 👏👏
Kevin great video kind Sir, love this form of photography and like you say can be challenging to capture a good image. Always looking forward for your next upload and I’m sure that you will keep getting many more Subscribers 👍 always appreciate your time warm regards from Stu..
Fantastic images and video content. Your images are beautiful, approach creative and interesting. But title should be more catchy and specific to get views you deserve! Use your title graphic "5 Steps to Success for birds in flight photography", "5F's - 5 steps to Fantastic bird photos" "Applying 5 military tactics to capturing great birds in flight photos". Should help to get more views. Personally I would re-edit and upload a shorter, more focused with same great images. Even show tracking/framing etc.. in viewfinder. Also play around with cover image and watch videos rate change for a week. You'll see what people are attracted to. I'm a digital marketing consultant, and think you deserve more success.
Most of the steps are really just common sense but like they say common sense is quite, rare probably because we take it for granted and look for a "something more" trick instead. It is good to be reminded to take basic common sense steps seriously. Birds in flight have always been my weakness and I just can't seem to get it. I have two favourite excuses😁I only do videos. But the principals are basically the same😐And the 200-600 lens is is just so damn heavy I can't keep it up for long, and it gets more shaky the longer I try. So that's patience out of the window😬So apart from training with weights or practicing holding my breath if you have a "something more" trick up your sleeve for someone like me, I would greatly appreciate it😁👍
@@warwickwolf3999 That's actually not a bad suggestion. We do have a Sony 4K FDD-AX 53 Handycam which is similar but newer and I believe has better tracking and stabilisation and it can do pretty good 4K at 25 fps in good light. Most of the videos we have published have actually been filmed with that camera. We bought it mainly because we needed an easy to handle camera to film our terrestrial orchids in motion. Some of the orchids are tiny and filming in semi macro while moving is quite a challenge and it has done quite a reasonable job we think. We publish the orchid videos as "Shorts" and our long form videos are mostly of birds for which it has also done a reasonable job. Of course the detail and dynamic range of the camcorder can't compare to our Sony A7 SIII but the ease of handling and reaction time needed to shoot a bird that just pops up in front of you when you are walking in the forrest is just a dream with the camcorder and you come home with a ton of reasonable footage. While with the A7 you get gorgeous footage but you miss a lot because by the time you get the heavy 200-600 mm lens up and in focus the bird is gone. And you know what it's like... I just want beautiful sharp images😐
Thanks again; great tips . Frustration is the one word I understood 😢 They weren't the 5f I use ; F F F F F --- bugga it --- need a better camera ---- goin' home !!
Excellent tutorial Kevin. Many thanks.
Great video thank you kevin
Merci pour votre partage .
A great step by step explanation, Kevin. One change I would suggest for the placement of feet, is that I feel it is best when the expected flight path is known, to position the stance more to where the bird is going to travel to rather than to where it starts from. Thus, when reaching the firing position, my body is set much more comfortably and more stable. I also use this type of stance when taking the series of frames for creating a panorama photograph.
What a really great video!!! Really easy to understand and concise! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Hi Kevin, this is the 1st video I've seen of yours and I have to say I'm blown away. Amazing images and footage. I'm about to upgrade to the R6mkii and the RF100-500mm and your advice has been extremely useful. I've really struggled on the R7 with the pulsing focus on the sigma 150-600mm so using the Canon rf lens is a no brainer. Looking forward to watching your past content and future adventures 👏👏
Great video, very useful tips. 👍
I love the way you teach, thanks.
Thanks for watching. Kevin.
Kevin great video kind Sir, love this form of photography and like you say can be challenging to capture a good image. Always looking forward for your next upload and I’m sure that you will keep getting many more Subscribers 👍 always appreciate your time warm regards from Stu..
Really good tips there & your photographs are stunning. Thank you
Thank you, Kevin. Very practical tips.
Great tips, thank you very much 👍🏼
Love your photography Kevin and look forward to your videos!
Fantastic images and video content. Your images are beautiful, approach creative and interesting. But title should be more catchy and specific to get views you deserve! Use your title graphic "5 Steps to Success for birds in flight photography", "5F's - 5 steps to Fantastic bird photos" "Applying 5 military tactics to capturing great birds in flight photos". Should help to get more views. Personally I would re-edit and upload a shorter, more focused with same great images. Even show tracking/framing etc.. in viewfinder. Also play around with cover image and watch videos rate change for a week. You'll see what people are attracted to. I'm a digital marketing consultant, and think you deserve more success.
Many thanks for your comments & I will take note for future videos.
Awesome so lovely capture
Very very useful guide, must be followed by beginners as well as semi professionals.minutely described.👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
Most of the steps are really just common sense but like they say common sense is quite, rare probably because we take it for granted and look for a "something more" trick instead. It is good to be reminded to take basic common sense steps seriously. Birds in flight have always been my weakness and I just can't seem to get it. I have two favourite excuses😁I only do videos. But the principals are basically the same😐And the 200-600 lens is is just so damn heavy I can't keep it up for long, and it gets more shaky the longer I try. So that's patience out of the window😬So apart from training with weights or practicing holding my breath if you have a "something more" trick up your sleeve for someone like me, I would greatly appreciate it😁👍
I'm working on a new video on how to support your camera that should be helpful. Keep trying.
Get an RX 10 👍🏻
@@warwickwolf3999 That's actually not a bad suggestion. We do have a Sony 4K FDD-AX 53 Handycam which is similar but newer and I believe has better tracking and stabilisation and it can do pretty good 4K at 25 fps in good light. Most of the videos we have published have actually been filmed with that camera. We bought it mainly because we needed an easy to handle camera to film our terrestrial orchids in motion. Some of the orchids are tiny and filming in semi macro while moving is quite a challenge and it has done quite a reasonable job we think. We publish the orchid videos as "Shorts" and our long form videos are mostly of birds for which it has also done a reasonable job. Of course the detail and dynamic range of the camcorder can't compare to our Sony A7 SIII but the ease of handling and reaction time needed to shoot a bird that just pops up in front of you when you are walking in the forrest is just a dream with the camcorder and you come home with a ton of reasonable footage. While with the A7 you get gorgeous footage but you miss a lot because by the time you get the heavy 200-600 mm lens up and in focus the bird is gone. And you know what it's like... I just want beautiful sharp images😐
@@wildhomevideos I’m starting to get some good BIF results, Kevin’s advice is excellent.. FFFFF 👍🏻
Thanks again; great tips . Frustration is the one word I understood 😢
They weren't the 5f I use ; F F F F F --- bugga it --- need a better camera ---- goin' home !!
nice🤍