BIZARRE BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE | How to get the shot

[@williamzaca6280]

Amazing video and photos!!

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Glad you like them!

[@willparsons32]

Very unique call from the duck.. thanks for the incredible video footage!!

[@jackdarren9210]

Greetings from Alabama USA. Another great video. Thanks.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Thank you Jack.

[@allanandersson6318]

Awesome birds and nature! Keep up the god work!

[@victorlim5077]

Beautiful colours on the Ducks.

[@northernlights1105]

Your videos and photographs are incredible and outstanding !!!

[@SeanMiller318]

Beautiful shots. 👍👍

[@toke7560]

What a refreshing video. Thanks.

[@fotosbyford]

Very nice and the tips are helpful. I will use them. Thank you.

[@thomastuorto9929]

Great vid. Beautiful views. Always a pleasure watching yours.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@andrewgaffney4881]

I will try that technique when I get a chance. Awesome photographs, as usual.

[@TATaylor512]

Love all the bird sounds! Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great footage!😎

[@rcsor3]

I love all your videos and your channel is one of my favorites. Keep up the good work. I hope I can visit Iceland one day!

[@JH-qv3xv]

Great inspiration and tips. Thanks

[@michaelwallwork7482]

Fantastic wildlife photography documentary. Stunning photograph's. Pure art! 👍

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Thank you so much 😀

[@arnfinnmalmedal700]

Nice to see you both making this kind of films in your fantastic Nature. Regards from Norway :)

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Our pleasure! Best wishes from Iceland.

[@johnkiefer1314]

That’s a very useful technique. I hadn’t thought about using it for water blur with aquatic birds, but the effect is nice! I sometimes use it for perched birds (or reptiles/amphibians) in rainforest to use low ISO to manage noise and achieve excellent color. Those subjects are often very still but even rather imperceptible movements of the head or eye or branch they’re on require several shots to hedge your bet. I doubt very many folks would have tried this before digital 😊.

[@FuatUler]

Great video, thanks. The places are so beautiful. I just found out that you can set the number of shots in self timer mode. Thanks for that too.

[@thomastuorto9929]

I shoot the D810. In the manual for bracketing it says to press the shutter for each shot in the bracketed sequence. For bracketing, in bulb mode, you need only to press the shutter once & it will take the number of photos selected. It might say it in the manual somewhere but, I haven’t come across it as of yet.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Fantastic images. And what a beautiful landscape. Good luck with your interesting experiments.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Thanks, you too Eigil.

[@KevinNordstrom]

Thanks for the video. Waterfowl is great and you two make a great team. "you can never have too much coffee" no truer words have ever been spoken ;)

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Thank you Kevin, - the world would stop if it were not for the coffee ;-) It get´s things done.

[@JVNPhoto]

Excellent video! I really enjoy not only the topic but how it makes you feel as if you're outside there with you.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Glad you enjoyed it Jeroen! Thank you!

[@debbiewitt7028]

Thank you for the details of your shooting. I have access to the Harlequins and I need to try the silky water. Beautiful photos.

[@thebirdschannel2811]

All your videos are fantastic, this comes out from passion, love for nature and also talent and ability from yourselves. Well done..

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Thank you so much 😀

[@hans-olofsvensson4567]

Hallo! Fantastic places and interesting video. Next week we celebrate MIDSOMMAR in Sweden so I say GLAD MIDSOMMAR (happy midsummer) to you Best wishes from Sweden and Hans-Olof

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Glad Midsommar Hans-Olof! We also have Summer solstice next week here in Iceland. It is always a great time to be out photographing. Best wishes from Iceland.

[@mattrobar895]

This is awesome. I have been thinking about how to get shots like this for a while now and your video helped me see some ways to get them. Thank you.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Go for it!

[@withvinayak]

Amazing video!!

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Thank you!!

[@thescouser8629]

Great video and images. I have been shooting dippers on my stream using slow shutter speeds. If you time the shot you can get good images at 10th sec and the effect is stunning

[@MikePageKaltenberg]

Love the photos and the challenge you set yourselves. I would have been tempted to go the composite route - one image for the bird and one for the water. Not too difficult. One question I do have though is why not use a cable release to get the timing right rather than relying on chance with the self-timer?

[@dougedwards7570]

a beautiful experience! thank you for sharing.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Our pleasure!

[@fgb3126]

I live on an island in the Pacific Northwest. I enjoyed seeing the "Long-tailed Duck" [Clangula hyemalis]. I can see Harlequins just about whenever I wish, with a bit of luck, but Long-taileds, they are uncommon and seasonal, and when they are here they are usually way out in the deeper parts of the sea away from shore. Not conducive to photography at all. I have only see Long-taileds on one occasion, and that with them way out there. To see them as they are in this video is a revelation.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

We love photographing Long-tailed ducks. They can be found in many locations here in Iceland during the summer. In they winter they stay out at sea.

[@zcurtiss2899]

The beautiful Harlequin duck! You guys took the captures of that to another level. I photographed them in Yellowstone Park in the U.S., and the platform a person could photograph from put you at a higher angle. I am happy with the shots I got because of the beautiful subject, but I would sure fancy some low angle shots of them someday. You guys make some entertaining content, and Iceland is now on my list of places to go for birds and scenery!

[@wildscapesph]

I would like to suggest using a remote for more control. Even a flash remote like the yongnuo can be used as a wireless trigger. 😊

[@dimitristsagdis7340]

Removing the lens hood should help reduce wind vibrations far more than the two tricks combined. Also I would try a remote trigger and have high frequency bursts (of 1/13 sec) one of the frames in the burst is likely be sharp as the vibrations could cancel each other out.

[@dominiquemartin9323]

Great video !, as for the long-tail ducks, what month that was taken ? Thank you for sharing

[@GudmannAndGyda]

The long-tail photos were taken in the end of May. 29th of may.

[@dominiquemartin9323]

@@GudmannAndGyda My bucket list is to take pictures of long-tail duck in summer plumage. Look like in Iceland that is possible. Thank you so much !

[@andrass.2842]

I'm in love with your videos and photos! Next level! A question: at 5:19, there is a sound in the background which is not the duck's voice. It's a deeper sound. I have heard this in Norway but have never seen it. What bird makes that sound?

[@lisingreece]

I am not sure but I thought it was a Skua of some kind.

[@edelmuller9215]

Thank you very much for the videos, information, love and enthusiasm that you show in each of the videos. Right now I am in the north of your country, (Iceland), photographing fascinating and lonely corners that you mention in your book (which I recently bought). I am very grateful to you for showing all these landscape and wildlife possibilities. I am experiencing a very different Iceland than my previous 3 trips, of course, areas of the Highlands are pending for another trip. Thank you and be happy.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Wonderful to know the book is helpful. Have a great trip here in north Iceland. :-)

[@Soefryd]

Have you tried the "SMALLRIG® DSLR Shoulder Rigs Long Lens Support Heigh-adjustable for Telephoto Lens on 15mm Rods NEW VERSION" to add some support to the heavy lens? Lovely pictures😁👍

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Not yet!

[@Soefryd]

@@GudmannAndGyda try to look at Mike Lane on youtube, he's using it much of the time. And it's not that expensive 👍🏻

[@stevenweston1425]

Excellent nature videos. I am not sure if you have tried this technique but if you put the camera into live mode the mirror is locked up and by using a wireless remote you could expose when you like. I am a Canon shooter and not sure this would work on your Nikon DSLR. The live mode prevents movement from mirror slap and may help while using the remote which means you don't need to touch the camera. Please disregard this if you have already tried this.

[@IAmR1ch]

It would seem to me to use a wireless remote to take the pictures instead of delay so you have precise control of when you take the shot.. Use a faster shutter speed so that the birds and water are sharp take take 10 shots at a time and blend them all together. Or take one shot at fast shutter speed, then take another at slow shutter speed and blend them together masking out the shot with the sharp water. You should buy a Z9 so you can at a very fast frame rate. Your pictures are great and you have inspired me to try this except I will be blending the sharp duck image with a silky moving background without wasting so many shots due to slow shutter speed.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Blending the images was not an option (the easy way). Using a remote is also not an option. We have bought 5 or 6 remotes. They all end their life the same way. Hanging from the camera, but deep in water. :-) There are many ways to get these shots as you know ;-)

[@nickreid5939]

Or do it the hard nature way...no blending ...no photoshop....just using a D4 Camera😀

[@IAmR1ch]

@@nickreid5939 Some cameras like Olympus have a live ND mode that blends the images together for you. I see photographers as problem solvers. They do what they need to to get the shot. Making it harder is not more fun at least for me and the end result between a 1 shot or multiple shots blended in camera or in photoshop is the same at least that is how I see it..

[@WernerBirdNature]

Hi Einar and Gyda, that's a very nice experiment ! I'm just not aware whether I have this exposure delay on my Canon R6. What does it actually do ?? Next Wednesday I'm finally flying to Iceland with my wife and youngest daughter, and part of our preparation was getting your e-book ;-) The day I met my wife, we talked about someday going to Iceland. And exactly 25 years later it will finally happen, so we're really excited to explore your magic island .. and I will be aiming to get a flying puffin nearly filling the frame using eye-AF 😛

[@ahmadc3]

It would've been great if you guys explain how you took the shots.

[@ronfullelove6995]

I have tried this with Dippers. Use wireless remote and mirror lock-up.

[@drferry]

In the movie "A League of Their Own" about women's professional baseball during the Second World War, Geena Davis is complaining to Tom Hanks about how hard it is. His response, "It's supposed to be hard, otherwise everyone would do it!"

[@alaskajdw]

Can I purchase your harlequin photographs?

[@GudmannAndGyda]

Sure... just send us an email through photographingiceland.is... :-)

[@hramakrishnaiah413]

I appreciate your efforts, but I hate images which are unusually low-angle. Looks unreal to me.

[@GudmannAndGyda]

It is great that we can have different views to the beautiful world we live in.

[@hramakrishnaiah413]

@@GudmannAndGyda yes, very much.