Tripod or Handheld? | Culling Thousands of Images | Photographing In Sun, Dust & Heat Haze

[@heidiwegener7614]

It's the passion one can feel that makes this show so very special.

[@vinodsharma1352]

It’s Ruby-cheeked Sunbird

[@GlennBartley]

Thanks so much for the ID 😊

[@jan_wegener]

Thank you!

[@pixels1000]

Ruby-cheeked sunbird

[@jan_wegener]

Thanks

[@NickTheGreek-m3x]

My dream trip!😀

[@AnandaGarden]

Stunningly beautiful birds and scenery, and lots of fun. What a lovely travelogue - thanks for taking us along, Jan.

[@jan_wegener]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@clausborner1705]

another constructive discussion about all the wonderful images and the crucial advice to take the chances for a photo, whenever they appear.

[@GlennBartley]

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the episode

[@jan_wegener]

Thank you!

[@aaravrasquinha5209]

The Bird at 19:16 is a Ruby-cheeked Sunbird. They are found in the northeast of India and some other south-east asian countries

[@GlennBartley]

Thanks for the ID!

[@Parroting_Australia234]

Thanks for sharing. really glad you completed the Ringneck subspecies collection.

[@jan_wegener]

Me too even tho it was quite tough. They are a lot less common up there than I expected

[@nerrelloader4226]

We are so fortunate to have so many stunning birds in Australia. Gorgeous photos of our birds Jan. I look forward to my lens finding them too one day.

[@RollTideUK]

I find it a chore going through two or three hundred images, I can't imagine going through 60k. You have my undying admiration being able to go through that many images.

[@jan_wegener]

It's not fun, but part of it. I rather have too many shots than missing the best moment :D

[@Hummingbirder1]

19:18 I'd say this is a Ruby-cheeked Sunbird, male/Chalcoparia singalensis. I've seen it in Thailand...

[@jan_wegener]

Thanks!

[@Chris_Wolfgram]

What an awesome trip ! 🙂 Those Grass Wrens are freaking cool 🙂 And the Painted Finches WoW ! Ha ! 😀 I had commented before I saw that you used my photo 🙂 TYSM ! And Glenn I could not agree more, my centering was not great. No excuses either as this was actually a pretty heavy crop. This is exactly why constructive critique is so helpful. Much thanks to both of you guys again 🙂

[@GlennBartley]

Congrats on the great shot!

[@jan_wegener]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@_Creaux]

Sounding like a broken record now, but yet another outstanding video from you both! Stay healthy, Jan! Hope to make it down under soon enough! Cheers

[@GlennBartley]

Glad you enjoyed the show!

[@jan_wegener]

Thank you!

[@ammadoux]

OMG Jan you liked my redstart image, i am so happy i feel i will faint, and yes Glen is right horrible clone on the right corner, i suck in editing, but promise after i retire in 2 two years i will take things seriously. thanks a million Jan and glen, you made me a happy girl. have to leave to do the happy dance.

[@GlennBartley]

So glad to have made you do a happy dance! 🙂

[@jan_wegener]

Glad we could make your day 😀

[@polmestra]

The outback looks amazing ! Can't wait to go one day . Amazing photos Jan! Glad to see you are feeling well enough to do what you love

[@jan_wegener]

Thanks so much!

[@Twobarpsi]

Excellent photos Jan!!

[@jan_wegener]

Glad you like them!

[@yogeshpuranik80]

Thankyou for yet another wonderful session... thanks

[@GlennBartley]

Cheers. Thanks for watching!

[@jan_wegener]

Our pleasure!

[@jasonjablonski3252]

Great episode!! Those Emu Wrens are amazing!!

[@MrTmiket0007]

Thanks so much for sharing another wonderful video like always guys, keep up with the awesome content 👍🤗

[@jan_wegener]

Thanks so much

[@bjrn-einarnilsen687]

Great video guys. And what an amazing trip Jan, with some outstanding birds. I do really loves the grass wrens. Think they are very beautiful and fun birds. We have some interesting species of them here in Brazil too. Also congrats to all the chosen photographers this week. Beautiful photos from all of them. Have a great week. Cheers, Bjoern

[@GlennBartley]

Cheers amigo!

[@jan_wegener]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@DanBetty]

Another Great VID... DPP is free and surprisingly good at going through lots of Canon images. It displays the focus point and meta data. You can sort by ISO or number or whatever and though it's terribly slow to edit with, the quick check feature is fast to view, rate and delete with. I shoot in a couple dusty areas and have run to an issue with the R5 a couple times where a grain of sand gets wedged on the side of the video button and it gets stuck down and it tricky to get it out but I do so with a fine needle I keep in my tool kit.

[@GlennBartley]

Always gotta have a good tool kit!

[@jan_wegener]

That sounds annoying!

[@clydeporter3097]

Love these road trip accounts, hope to see more of Glen's too!

[@WernerBirdNature]

Yesss, Jan & Glenn .. this episode is simply breathing the passion which makes us addicted to bird photography 👍 The painted finches we could already admire in the previous episode, but now I was even more impressed by the more extensive footage of the different Grasswrens ! The most tricky one of them looks in colors and behavior a bit like our Bluethroat. And last time I checked this was still on Jan's todo list ;-) This tripod dilemma is what I'm facing all the time .. I do drag it along in my backpack always, but often I end up not taking it out all day. But I'd hate not having it around when I can stay put on a location for a longer time. This is also when I appreciate the low weight of the 100-500, and I'd hate holding glass above 2kg like the 150/180/200-600 zooms or your 600/4 .. Thanks for the culling insights! Some shots/poses can indeed quickly be deleted when going fast through them, without zooming in .. but when I have a 100 shots in nearly same pose & composition .. it's still a challenge to pick out the sharpest with best pose .. But once you managed a good, sharp and detailed image of a nice pose of a specific specific bird, it gets a bit easier to faster delete those who are not at the same level. I guess it must be a lot easier when you have already an impressive portfolio like both of you !

[@jan_wegener]

I do get lazy sometimes and just keep 5-10 similar shots :) Sometimes quicker than looking through every single one and I can always delete some more if I pick the best one later for editing

[@WernerBirdNature]

@@jan_wegener I also keep 5 to 10 times more poses than what I finally edit .. But those I spent the time editing are hopefully the best from the session ;-)

[@christophercarlimages9003]

That Emu Wren photo was amazing! Similar to the Marsh Wrens in the United States where they are almost always blocked by a reed/grass. Kudos. Great episode as always! 😊

[@GlennBartley]

Cheers Christopher! 😊

[@jan_wegener]

Yes, they do love hiding!

[@Lil-JensStudio]

In the photo blind, it's Pro Media GK Jr. gimble on a heavy Manfrotto tripod. Walking about or out in my kayak, handheld is the only way to go. The thought of lugging a tripod through the woods for miles might be enough to make me want to stay home.

[@kirkwest3721]

Great episode and some more than useful tips on how to get the shot. These were done in a pleasant chat manner mainly lead by excellent questioning by Glenn, also typically the exact questions many of us, your viewers would have. The choice of images and the critique given was excellent. My go to program for sorting through my images is Fast Raw Viewer, not free software but very handy as one can check and test sharpness, exposure, detail in both shadows and highlights as well as the effect of raising or lowering contrast. Thanks both of you for an informative episode with some lovely images.

[@jan_wegener]

Thanks for sharing and glad you enjoyed the show Kirk

[@cambodiabird]

Wow, many beautiful birds and shots. It is painful work for curling photos after each shooting session. I have sometime spend weeks to delete photos of my one day trip. Haha

[@anirudhsingh9756]

Great video! Looks like you had a good trip Jan! About the paradise flycatcher picture, here in India people have a craze to photograph this and they'll cross boundaries to take "clean" pictures of these birds even if it means breaking the rules of ethics. I dont know if it happened here but there have been way too many cases of people breaking branches and clearing out trees in the area to get that bokeh background. There have been cases of the birds getting too stressed and abandoning the nest, all this for just a few likes on social media.

[@montepaulson3131]

Glen mentions American Robins here in Canada, Yea. I had parked my truck with ATV's on it for two days in my yard and in that time they had built a nest in the valley of the handlebars of one of them and had played three eggs in it already, two days! I felt terrible, because nothing you do can fix this problem aside from not moving the truck for a few months which unfortunately wasn't an option. This year I had a pair build a nest right on the back door light, 6" above the door. You'd flush them every time you went in or out, but they did successfully finishing the term.

[@jan_wegener]

crazy!

[@pascalkellerhals476]

Unknown bird: Chalcoparia singalensis...maybe?

[@przybylskipawel]

Changing the shape of the bird is a bit too much ingerention in post for my tase. THX for the tips on file management. Faststone Image Viewer is a night and day difference comparing to stock W10 image viewer or DPP4

[@jan_wegener]

Yes, FastStone is very nice

[@adinew8920]

Thanks.....

[@jan_wegener]

You're welcome!

[@vinodsharma1352]

Just grab the opportunity, when you get one 😄 Tomorrow is no guarantee 👍

[@GlennBartley]

Wise words 😊

[@jan_wegener]

Exactly

[@truthseeker6804]

i clicked because of the new title . good video

[@jan_wegener]

Thanks! Titles can be so hard to chose

[@generaltso9402]

At 19:16, birds name is Tony.

[@jan_wegener]

😆😉

[@deanhohn777]

Yoiur #2 bird Glenn I would name it a "Jeweled Warblera"!

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

Do you use a variable ND filter when shooting video in sunlight? If not, what settings do you use to handle harsh light?

[@jan_wegener]

Sometimes but it’s usually too hard on the 600, so here I just had high SS of like 1/400

[@nature-fineart]

In Europe you have always to take the opportunity, if you find the bird enjoy the moment and wait not for a better light 😉😂

[@jan_wegener]

Hehe

[@garymeredith2441]

Glenn and Jan when you guys have photos submitted and then you're showing the photos at the end of the show like you do , do you ever see the data on the photos like what lens was used what body was used was a tele - converter used , basically just how the photo was done .

[@jan_wegener]

We grab them of Instagram, so unless people state it there, we don't know the exits

[@sfmaximo]

Great content on this one! I was just wondering one thing. What do you do between the morning and afternoon photoshoots? It's a lot of hours to fill, specially when you only have an RV and it's above 30°

[@jan_wegener]

Most days we drove, otherwise we just had to wait around or look for some new spots

[@nancyfischer4399]

Lovely images and film! What is the content of that red rock? My guess is iron.

[@jan_wegener]

Yes, there’s a lot of mining around there too

[@natolinaturephotography]

Thanks guys, another informative session. Can I ask you Jan, along your outback travel did you run across any/many Wedge-tailed eagles? If so, on roadkill or perched, be it natural perches or man-made structures, especially in SA south of Birdsville? Approx 12 mths ago I was fortunate to encounter 5 Wedgies just west of Roxby Downs, 4 together on 1 dead roo and 1 solitary bird perched on a fence post. Unfortunately 80% of my shots were effected by heat haze but I did end up with some very pleasing images. Cheers

[@jan_wegener]

There were some areas that had a lot of eagles, kites and falcons and then long stretches with nothing. The most we saw in one dead tree was 6

[@natolinaturephotography]

​@@jan_wegener Thank you Jan. I must get back out there. Cheers

[@ΝικόλαοςΚουντουράς]

I would like to see an 100 600 rf

[@przybylskipawel]

How can I have a chance to feature the photo of the week?

[@vladimirkulikov4427]

Huh, your trip sounds like regular weather in Qatar for most of the year. 40-50 degrees Celcius, no clouds, and desert all around you. :) And thanks for sharing your experience. I love your videos.

[@GlennBartley]

Too hot for this Canadian!!

[@jan_wegener]

Yes, can’t compete with that sort of heat and don’t think I’d want to either 😆

[@koenmh2]

What’s the image viewer Glen uses? I could not hear it properly

[@jan_wegener]

Breeze Browser

[@klaustomasini]

Bird: maybe Chalcoparia singalensis, Ruby-cheeked sunbird (male)

[@GlennBartley]

Thanks for the ID

[@auravsingh]

What are the best gym exercises to boost your hand holding game ?😂

[@GlennBartley]

Core strength!

[@jan_wegener]

And actual technique like resting your elbow somewhere on your body

[@cambodiabird]

It does look like Brown-throated Sunbird.

[@scottg9208]

Handheld 95% of the time when shooting wildlife unless I am using a Monopod.

[@skakdosmer]

Uhm ... Orange Throated Blue-Thrush?

[@skakdosmer]

(I just made that up, in case you wonder).

[@celts88-78]

@jan_wegner Hi Jan sorry to send a message via KZbin but I did send one via aviscapes a couple of weeks ago (no reply). Is there an issue with getting the link to your 5 common mistakes ebook as I've tried a few times but never receive an email with the link. I was looking at getting your masterclass and perch videos bundle, but wanted to firstly have a look at your mistakes ebook first. Also want to say I really enjoy all your videos they're a great place for info (I'm a beginner) and really make one eager for more. Thanks 👍

[@jan_wegener]

Hey, I replied to your email, maybe it went to the spam folder? Can you email me again, [e-mail]. I can send it to you.