Bird Photography for Beginners

In this week's deep-dive, I go through my best tips for getting started with bird photography. We'll talk through how to find birds, how to set up your camera, and my tips for getting good compositions.
I have a separate video that covers the gear you will need, and in an upcoming video, I'll also talk about how I post-process and edit my images. I hope you find this one helpful and please let me know if there are other topics that you'd like me to cover!
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[@ItsAYGIbaby]

Underrated video. Amazing

[@harrr53]

Software that removes noise is great, but it is fundamentally limited in that while it removes the noise itself, it doesn't recover the sharpness lost to that noise. Your image will still be as soft as the noise made it. So my approach is: For printing, leave the noise in, because as bad as noise might look on the screen, a print can tolerate quite a bit of noise. especially if your paper has texture. For web/screen, use noise reduction, resize image, sharpen. The fact that you are shrinking the resolution to a screen size reduces how much the images suffers from softness.

[@luisfigueroa3300]

This was a great learning and reviewing video. Thank you for putting it all together. Of all the videos I have seen on KZbin, you did the best job in reference to bird photography. Again, thank you so much. 👍👏

[@alanyoungphoto]

I’m so glad that you found it helpful! Thank you so much for the kind words, Luis!

[@reneewilliams5498]

Very informative video! Thank you very much. I learned so much. I was able to follow you perfectly and your voice is so nice and easy to listen to. Again thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@JustOneKnight]

A new camera inspired my birding behaviour.

[@NikonJohnny]

Very informative, thanks.

[@recmydream]

Thanx for tips, man!

[@jamie3976]

I shoot with a cellphone and spotting scope and would love to see a video of tips & tricks for cellphone and spotting scope bird photography. Thank you for this video I found it very interesting.

[@TheXone7]

This channel is amazing, excellent quality of presentation, deserves 100k subs next month!!! God bless you and your work 🙏🏻🤗🕊️

[@alanyoungphoto]

Very kind of you! Thanks!

[@valuecreator2030]

PIE is such useful advice

[@woodymallory9058]

Right on point with the tips...great job with the video! I hope you get alot of views with this one

[@alanyoungphoto]

If that means more bird photographers, I’m all for it! Thanks!

[@jerryeisner1]

Great video, well organized, knowledgable, friendly, presented in a professional and friendly manner!! Thank you for sharing it!!

[@firstlast2034]

I can follow you just fine. Thank you!

[@thereandbackagain2022]

I’ve been shooting with the eos r and the tamron 150-600. And it seem the Eos r cant focus or struggle on small birds. Even if it’s right in front of of me. Any one have a suggestion or advice. I went to tamron and the tamron lens tech just said the R is great for that subject. Etc

[@Satishmalladiny]

I have a Canon 7D body with a crop sensor and I use a Canon 70-200 lens. With this combination I have taken good shoots. I also purchased a Canon 1.4X extender sometime ago. After attaching the extender I am unable to focus on anything, I tried 100 ft and 10 ft without any success. Everyone posts sharp pictures and also show the camera settings. I have viewed so many youtube tutorials but I am not able to get any photos ..... please help

[@esemprun]

Great video! Very informative, thank you for all the tips. I feel it is worth mention that you have a great voice and intonation for this type of videos. Very relax and pleasant! I was watching another video about bird photography and even though the info was useful, I had to skip and keep browsing. The guy was speaking so fast that was making me anxious and was just annoying to listen to. Thank you again for the video!

[@alanyoungphoto]

Incredibly kind of you to say! Thank you!

[@AlexanderYoung-fw9de]

I was sleeping so I missed it