Hi Marlene nice to see you again. Clean air makes all the difference especially when zoomed in, all the winter sports, snow vids, filmed in dust free, heat free clean air are pristine Always nice to see what your doing with your helpful videos I am still very much learning. Thank you.
And great to hear from you again, Michael. Yes, that mirage effect was a bit of a surprise to me after a long cold winter of shooting. So that's something I'll try to avoid from now on. Cheers!
Wow, what a marvelous outing you had there Marlene. Looks like you had a blast from the gorgeous photos you took. Thanks so much for sharing, I always look forward to your art.
Thank you so much. This video a combo of about 3-ish outings. I was hunting for a Great Blue Heron that some friends had seen in one of the ponds, and I went back to the location 3 times and never saw it, so I decided to go ahead and publish without it. When I find it, I'll post a photo in my Community section. Great to hear from you again. Cheers!
Spring is a great time for birding. You have amazing bird action going on where your at. Here in the mojave desert we get a lot of migrating birds. They come, they breed, and by summer, we'll see the immatures and juves. For me, each season is full of surprises and hopes that a species I've yet to record shows up. And I totaly agree, Birding is addictive. Keep up the great work on your videos.
So true. Always fun to watch the migration and the breeding! That has started already here too. I've seen a couple of owls nests already. And one has an owlet. Thank you for watching and happy spring-summer birding to you.
Looks like you are having a blast. Same here in Ontario. I loved the silhouette shot of you and your camera and that meadowlark!!!! Great video. Thanks again.
Thank you Karen. I decided to have a little fun with the B-Roll shots in this one. I was pretty happy to find some Meadowlarks. I heard them calling to each other before I saw them.
@@ImageMaven we have meadowlarks here on our farm but they are quite shy and I rarely get a good shot, even with 420mm on micro 4/3, so I am envious. Maybe it’s the Bouvier that I walk with but the Bobolinks are just an arms length away and they never seem to care about the dog. Funny how each species is different. I think that’s what enjoy most about walking and photographing the same route every day. You really get to know the birds and all their idiosyncrasies. Very addictive as you say. If you are ever in Ontario in the summer drop by to see the bobolinks!
I hear you Karen! Those Meadowlarks were very skittish and shy. I was waiting in my car by the side of the road, and I would sneak out when another car drove by so they wouldn't see or hear me moving about. It worked some of the time ;) You definitely need patience with some birds. And yes, I like walking the same routes every day too for the same reasons as you and because I like to watch the seasons change and also you get to see all the species when they arrive back in the area again. I'll definitely get in touch if I'm ever back in Ontario. I have lots of my people there. Cheers!
@@ImageMaven ok, I’ll keep quietly at my meadowlarks and let you know when I get a keeper. They are one of my favourite birds. Like little tub boats in the air.
Now that's a lot of birds! I need to find something like that in my neck of the woods. I just tested out my new 100-300 lens and am pretty impressed. My thanks for reviewing that before I bought. I love your birding videos, great inspiration for me. Have loads of fun!
Ooh, how nice for you Steven! I hope you enjoy your 100-300 as much as I do. I've decided to stick with it, and not get the 100-400mm. I'm saving my coffee money for a new M43 body (not the G6) and hopefully it's a G9 sucessor. And speaking of coffees, thank you so much for the coffees as well! Cheers!
Love the clarity of the photos and videos captured with the G9 and 100-300mm! The updated autofocus really makes a difference. And your enjoyment of photography comes sparklingly through! As we get back to kayak season, my go to G9 100-300mm setting for birds/wildlife photos are: 1) Ex Tele Converter for photos "ON" and image size to "M" with Image Quality set to "Jpg/Raw". This gives me the "poor man's" 100-400mm lens reach. The Ex Tele Converter + Medium size give a 1.4 x boost without loss of quality. At 300mm, the 1.4x boosts the apparent focal length to 420mm. Multiply by the 2x crop factor for a effective focal length equivalent of 840mm for the jpg image. My test comparisons with a 100-400mm lens at 400mm and the 100-300mm image at 300mm with the Ex Tele Converter showed comparable jpg images. In fact, the jpg from 300mm with Ex Tele Converter looked sharper to me than the 400mm image! And with the Image Quality set to jpg/raw, I still have the raw image to that shows the 600mm equivalent without the Ext Tele Converter. I also use the Ex Tele Converter "ON" for 4K burst photos. This has worked really well for me to capture birds while kayaking. The Ex Tele Converter adds 1.6x to the 4K images. At 300mm, the image extracted from 4 K has a 960mm equivalent ( 300X1.6X2) without any loss of quality.
Hi Jason, I know you're really promoting this type of shooting. For me, the issue with all that reach is stability when handheld. I find, especially if it's windy (and you can see that in some of my clips here) with all the stabilization I can muster out of the camera and lens, that I still can't hold the camera on a single subject in the distance. Even if it's a faraway fencepost. The camera thankfully will focus for me, but if I attempt pinpoint or MF, it's nearly impossible for me to keep the camera on the subject to set up the focus, due to the long reach. One millimeter of movement on my part multiplies to several inches at a distance, and then I'm off my target. I shudder to think what it would be like shooting with EXT Tele from a bobbing kayak!
I would appreciate including in future video what technique to use to photograph a red wing blackbird. The body seems to photograph well but the head is a muddle of black.
Hi Ron, That’s a super specific topic. I have several bird photography tutorials. This might help you start: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t_Dp6dXd-e0.html
Good Morning, Marlene. I hope you are out catching some wonderful footage an d enjoying the Jurassic bug onslaught heading all our way. I am envious of your varying species and types of all things to shoot in that part of the world. However, I did have a question about whether you've set up a small mini encampment logs, brush, etc and from time to time put out seed? A nature studio, if you will, for setting up some shots without having to walk as much? Thank you again for all your fine work! * Coffee's brewing!
Hi Steve! What a lovely way to start my day with coffees and conversation with you. Thank you so much once again, for the coffees! Yes, I did have a couple of bird feeders and heated water baths put out front and back of the house throughout the winter, but now that it's spring the birds can fend for themselves. Also bird feeders really multiply the non-native sparrow population, but those also keep the Merlins well-fed (if you know what I mean). In years past I've keep the feeders up all year round, but those pesky sparrows eat all of my vegetable seedlings and blossoms too. So I'm trying to minimize those. I'll keep the water out for now as it's quite dry here. Without tempting food I will miss the chickadees, nuthatches, goldfinches and few more that pass through, but I can usually find those in the nature park that's on my daily walk. But if you are just getting started with bird photography, a feeder is a great place to practice as you will get a lot of action. American Robins nested right on my front porch last spring, so that was a bit of luck. The water keeps the Robins around too. I also got a bunch of small logs yesterday from a downed tree and I'm going to drill holes in them and pile them up under an older spruce tree to attract mason bees and other bugsy things. Doing what I can for nature in the Calgary burbs. Great chatting with you! Time for another coffee!
@@ImageMaven , an honor to do so. Hope the American $'s are adding a bit extra to the coffers or the brew :) I appreciate the great information provided. I've never gone out to purposefully shoot birds but have been blessed to have a few choice shots that presented themselves to me. Sometimes, I have to remember to stop watching for the closeup beauty they present and pull the proverbial trigger on the shot. Thank you again for the inspiration, education, and the kinds words. Always a great way to start my day as well!
Marlene Any chance you could go through your camera settings to get great bird photos. Maybe you could just do a video and scroll through each setting.
Hi, I have several videos where I share my settings. They're in this playlist. That should get you started: ru-vid.com/group/PL46y8pfDCaW5YBMnW_aF4NmRkYRK-fqtK
Thank you for the video, I and my husband started butterfly monitoring and also try to photograph them, it very hard. May be you have some tips for it. Thank you
Interesting. That is a topic I haven't specifically explored. Sometimes I get lucky and I'll get a butterfly in my flower photos. Do you use macro lenses for your butterfly photos? My tips would be, try to get them in the best light, and get good depth of field so that you can see all the details.
@@ImageMaven currently we don't have good macro, but get them in good light very hard, because the move all the time, but thanks for the tip, we will try it ❣️
Hi Marlene! When you are birding in daylight (shooting moving subjects) do you shoot in S or A priority, or something else? Also curious what setting you like to keep iResolution at, and if use auto/i/manual ISO. Thanks for all the vids!
Yes, I usually always shoot birds in Manual Exposure Mode, 1/1000s (or higher), f5.6 or f8 and Auto ISO. Thanks for watching! And I don't use iResolution that much. But it's worth testing.
Hello! I have nowhere else to go to get an answer. I’m hoping you or your awesome community of subscribers can answer this. My LUMIX G9 is set to FHD 10bit 100M 60p, neither my iOS nor Windows can open the file. Is there a way to somehow open this file?
