Things No One Tells You About as a Wildlife Photographer 

This is really great and I enjoyed listening to all the info/advice you shared. I will be listening again and checking out your other videos. Subscribed. Thank you 🙏🏼

Really good info drop. Love your willing to call out the MP hype. I shoot with 20mp camera and it gets me plenty sharp and detail in my photos. Only thing I really want from new cameras is the eye detection. Have missed a good handful of shots because of auto focus troubles.

Good stuff Jamie !!! Getting good gear, great glass, exposing to the right, learning how to take the best advantage the light and how to edit have been key. BUT you are right get up get out of bed and go out often and get the experience. I have been shooting puffins for a couple years from a boat and never got the shot I wanted. This year I went out on a Lobster boat in Maine. The boat had a tuna door so I could lay down on the deck with that door open and be inches above the water (nice angle), position the boat with the early morning light behind me (nice light) and close enough to capture decent detail. That was the image I was looking for and it only took years :)

the ISO thing took me many years to figure out (as I started with film, slide, crop., FF). AF accuracy and speed is king, everything else: MPs, DM/noise, fps, EVFs, weather sealing, battery life... matter far less than OEMs want you to believe. Buy the best AF you can afford. You marry your lenses, you date your bodies. Divorces are expensive. My solution: buy used pro glass that is one or even two generations older. In 25 years I think I only bought 3-4 lenses new cause the used was really bad or too expensive or lacked some key feature like IS. So learn how to balance used with new lenses.

Thanks so much for sharing another wonderful video like always 👍

Great video Jeremy...looking forward to the 2nd Annual BirdBurger Wildlife Photography competition. Loved last years competition. Keep doing these amazing videos...I learn a ton... Tschuß from Germany

Funny, thing I'm planning a video similar to this topic. Great points, Jeremy. We are always evolving as photographers.

With regards to sharpness, there's one more thing worth mentioning - refraction. If the ground is warm while the air is cold, you are gonna have a bad time.

I believe far too much emphasis is put on sensor size. For myself it’s pretty far down the list of importance. I look for quality glass, auto focus speed and precision ahead of it. The system is it going to be carried by oneself a long distance ? How does the body feel; a subjective thing but very important. Canon IMO seems to do the best job of that. So much of it down to the small things.

As for the wildlife community being quick to judge and quick to attack I find that to be true online only...I think its the people who shoot 2× a year and think they know it all..keyboard shooters..lol..The people I meet in the field when its 20 degrees might ask you what your shooting with if they can't immediately recognize your gear...Most of the people I meet in the field just usually ask what I have gotten shots of and are quick to offer up their sightings of a bird you may be after....

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