Nature Photography Tips For Beginners

[@PangolinWildlife]

Which of these settings would you rank as the most important to master?

[@robertrakowicz9666]

AF-Settings, because - all new software can handle noise and WB (by RAW) and other things. But if your photo is not sharp..... it's nothing

[@ro3843]

This is one of the best channels for truly learning wildlife photography.

[@sabracadabra22]

Thanks Janine! I always get to pick up something new from your videos. The content for your channel is consistently excellent.

[@nitinbhide5964]

Thanks for very Nice Tutorial in wild life photography.

[@PangolinWildlife]

You are most welcome

[@lisaschwerdt6447]

showing/seeing examples of settings differences was helpful

[@vulcan1623]

Excellent presentation. Janine always does a very good job of explaining the concepts for wildlife photography. As an avid user of back button focusing and AI Servo for moving subjects, I can confirm these techniques are critical to capturing these sorts of images. The Pangolin channel is terrific!

[@foilpainterfantasyartist1711]

Another great video and informative

[@georgemccormick1247]

Thank Janine, got some good info from the vid, am new to your channel and am enjoying your instructional videos on Lightroom as I am just starting out in editing, am not a newbie to photography but being 77 years old it’s taken me a while to catch up with the technology but your helping with that part. Thanks again.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Awesome, thank you!

[@artl.187]

Thanks for the intro video to wildlife photography. Good content and information for both beginners and season photographers not use to shooting wildlife. I specifically liked the important points to consider that you highlighted: continuous focus, focus type, exposure (iso, shutter speed and aperture), metering type selection, frame rate, white balance and jpeg or raw. I look forward to part 2 of this session to fine tune this information to put this to practice. I also like the other videos from your channel. Very helpful and gives one more incentive to go on a wildlife safari.

[@MikeAscione081]

Gran bella descrizione, all'inizio sembrava piu' difficile ma poi tutto fila liscio. Grazie

[@nsfotographi]

Thanks for the tips...they are great!

[@wilduntamedphotography1260]

Remember when we talked about this beginners guide in Botswana recently, very well done & explained Janine!

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thank you

[@heroguidenj2832]

This is very interesting and well articulated . I'm learning a lot here...Thanks Janine

[@lachlangraham1062]

Great video Janine. For me the most important one as a DSLR user was exposure compensation, in conjunction with selecting the right metering mode to use. The AWB and autofocus were pretty good on my gear out of the box, so I did not have to worry about those so much. I have developed rules of thumb like if I’m shooting a bird against a bright sky, start at +2. Again great stuff, much appreciated.

[@pangolinphotohosts818]

much appreciated... check out the second part of the tutorial

[@marclabro]

nice tuto ! very useful.

[@mikeyphoto48]

very helpful and easily explained thank you!

[@PangolinWildlife]

You're very welcome!

[@ruudthoomes2608]

Great video, thanks for all these usefull tips!

[@PangolinWildlife]

Glad it was helpful!

[@buggersofoz]

Awesome all in one video! Even if it just provided me with some validation of the things I've learned from your other videos, it's so good to remind yourself of the basics! Great job!!!

[@PangolinWildlife]

Great to hear!

[@joannemeadows5031]

Thanks Janine, some very helpful tips. I am new to your channel and trying to work out some kinks with my 1DX M11. I primarily shoot dog shows. So always a moving target. I have been really struggling with the AF as sometimes not the whole dog is in focus. Or the body is and not the head. I have done a factory reset on the camera and have changed my settings based on yours and your teams fabulous tutorials. One day would love to do a safari :)

[@karenc2020]

Thank you so much for making these videos. You always present the information in a straightforward, easy to understand manner. I appreciate your lessons, and hope to join one of your safaris in the future.

[@pangolinphotohosts818]

thanks so much Karen.... hope it helped

[@andresalgadomarques]

I love your channel and your videos. It's incredible, these days, how much useful and rich information we get from talented professionals on the Internet and completely free! Thank you for your hard work and dedication! 🙏🙏🙏

[@PangolinWildlife]

My pleasure!

[@mxyptlk]

Thanks to the whole team there for such pleasant clear concise information on every aspect of photography...!! Definitely the most well presented channel I have found on KZbin . I will enjoy looking at more of your content 🙏🏻

[@MrTmiket0007]

Hello from Montreal! Thanks for sharing another wonderful video like always, I loved the way you explained everything and very easy to understand, keep up with the awesome content 👌👍🤗

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thank you so much!

[@NikCan66]

Excellent news

[@robertwhitemoto]

Great video Janine... you might benefit from a lapel mic in your next videos.

[@pangolinphotohosts818]

Thanks Robert... I am working on that. Sound is my nemesis

[@幸运任]

Newbie from Cambodia 🎉

[@joncothranphotography9375]

Great video! Looks like I'm set here. I look forward to the next installment for more refinement. Thanks so much for the information! P.S. Could I ask that the editor turn up the volume just a bit please? Thanks!

[@PangolinWildlife]

Awesome, thank you! will do!

[@joncothranphotography9375]

@@PangolinWildlife Thanks! It's easy to turn down the volume while watching a video, but the volume only goes so loud.

[@marco.74]

Coud you make italian version video 😢 ? Wonderful

[@BudBetz]

Well Done!

[@supersonico9364]

10:13 exposure compensation general rules

[@-Alam]

So nice keep it up ☺️😊

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thanks 😊

[@dumchidumchi]

Hi Janine, off topic question...has the R3 replaced your 1DX and become your main camera now?

[@pangolinphotohosts818]

Hi Simon, it has .... there is some moments where I miss my 1Dx... (e.g. low light) ... but for the most part I am super happy

[@kibbsnowden6893]

Hi, quick question, how do you keep mold out of lens in such a humic place ...Thanks

[@BeldnerFilms]

Can you recommend a good lapel mic for making youtube tutorials?m

[@AjaySingh-228]

Good Mam

[@PangolinWildlife]

It's my pleasure

[@AjaySingh-228]

@@PangolinWildlife 🤗

[@markstevens6682]

I agree 100% 8-10 FPS is usually more than enough…

[@alvinmorris5404]

Exposure triangle, and I would really like to know what bird that is in the background of your audio it sounds like sonar and you young lady are definitely on dry ground 😆

[@whitewalker9622]

1. Metering and how does it work. 2. Exposure triangle. 3. White balance. This is the pure basics in digital photography. And always shoot raw, cause you need the original frame.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Great tip!

[@nitinbhide5964]

Kindly include ISO settings (Auto or manual) in next tutorial.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Stay tuned!

[@pangolinphotohosts818]

Hi Nitin... did you find it in the second part of this series? Check it out

[@ThePhk5]

great video but that background noise is the most annoying i've heard in a while, do this one again without the noise and try to eliminate the echo,

[@TonyHedges]

I'm wondering whether this isn't a bit too technical for beginners? Do they need to know about ISO, matrix metering and so on. Ideally getting a new shooter onto Manual made is a goal, but I would aim at aperture priority or shutter priority at most. You would be lucky to get them off P mode, no matter how much they spend on their safari camera set up. Don't give them the impression that they should attempt to use single-point focus! If they have a Nikon there are many different focus areas, including full screen for animal-eye auto focus and the Z9 has bird-eye auto focus to die for. Beginners don't need to know half the stuff you talk about. They don't need to know about Exposure Compensation for sure. Good try at making a guide, but I think you forgot about the beginners and concentrated on making sure you demonstrated that you knew what you were talking about. I personally think its as much about what you leave out. You don't want to see peoples eyes glazing over because they can't decide whether a situation calls for spot-metering!

[@joncothranphotography9375]

Speaking as a novice myself, I appreciate the excess knowledge dump to help me to learn as much as possible. I do however realize that to understand all that we know, we must practice, turning knowledge into wisdom. She doesn't know which camera that we are shooting, so she must put out there all of the information for us to sort out what pertains to us. Please don't assume that beginners are not smart enough to sort through the information and get the nuggets that make them a better photographer.

[@wilduntamedphotography1260]

Could not agree less. It's definitely great to start learning it as early as possible. Photography is "technical", you have to understand certain technical aspects in the attempt to master it. The Z9 for me has the worst and most complicated AF-System of all high-end cameras, while Canon and Sony are very straight forward and easy to use. It can't keep up with the R3 and definitely not with the A1, which is the oldest of the so called "flagships" - but why are you mentioning cameras here? She did not even talk about cameras, and not everyone has a Z9 (or A1, R3). Also why should a beginner not know about exposure compensation? Janine also made it clear that spot metering might be a (rare) option and mentioned the risks involved in using it, but also explained which metering mode she would be using most of the time. While is was hosting there I also tried to make people, mostly complete newbies, to get to use manual mode with Auto-ISO and you would be surprised how many guests picked it up quite fast under the hosts guidance.

[@pangolinphotohosts818]

Hi Tony, good point. It is a bit much for some people but if they really want to learn there is no way around the technical components. I find that Aperture Priority always ends up providing our beginners with a shutter speed that is too slow as they cannot pay attention to it all the time yet. So it is quite a difficult setting to learn properly. At the end they need the information to start learning... we do teach this two part tutorial to guest that might stay with us 3 to 4 nights and our guest seem to be doing rather well with it.

[@TonyHedges]

@@pangolinphotohosts818 its a problem, I can understand it. I have tried to simplify things when I am in bird mode. I have settled on shutter priority with auto-iso. Keeping the shutter near 3,000th for startled birds. As long as the iso is lower than the shutter speed, with modern mirrorless cameras, they are pretty forgiving.

[@KhashNejad]

Please use better mic. The audio is very bad.

[@pangolinphotohosts818]

Thanks so much... I will definitely look into it