I enjoy the fact that Chelsey looks so relaxed with Jeans and a T-shirt. Tony looks like he can sit down and become a bush. :) Even the cameras matches the outfits!😀👍😜

Never been able to find a video like this one where everything is explain simply and clearly. Brilliant, thankyou. Really helped me!

Thank you to both of you, I have learned so mucho since I started watching your tutorials like 5 years ago. Please, keep doing this, for all of us who can’t get enough experience as photographers.

Watched this video again after about a year, and it's a nice refresher on the basics required to get your wildlife photography goals accomplished. Thanks again for a great quick summary!

Love to see you are still so excited about shooting, like two kids at Christmas. Stay safe.

Thanks for your info ! I got a Canon M6 mk2 recently, with my 70-300 usm nano and got my cameras Custom 1 and 2 settings set to either: - Manual mode with 1/2000sec, f8 (much sharper than “wide open”) and auto ISO. Center area continuous auto focus, with one quick button press to change the areas or single auto focus. And high shutter speed (The M6 mk2 has high for tracking priority and high plus). I use it for flying/moving birds. - The other is manual mode with 1/500, f8, auto ISO. Center point focus with subject tracking (like you showed on your Sony) with one quick button to switch between continuous or single auto focus, and one other quick button to zoom in for manual focusing. Set to silent shutter. This mode I immediately switch to, when birds are sitting still ☺️ Works perfectly for me !

Always sound advice and information from the two of you. A must-have subscription. 👽👍👍👍

OMG, Chelsea, you nailed that Osprey look. I have so many pics of “that look”

Always like when you guys update a previously covered topic. There is always something new to learn. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Thank you for the simple, straightforward and yet brilliant explaination of the different settings. I've watched this video multiple times, I pickup more info as my learning progresses.

From one bird nerd to another, I love any tutorials about bird photography!

Simply one of the best tutorial videos I have watched. I really appreciate your relaxed, natural style with your great knowledge and experience. Please keep them coming. If you can also consider those who do not have the 'top of the range' camera and lens, that would be cool too. The book (photography) you mentioned is great.

Great info once again, thank you!!

Wonderful! Thank you! Especially the second button for focusing on birds against the sky. Gotta set that up right now. Stay well, you two!

I forget to comment on any videos, but I have learned so much from you two that I need to because I know it will help the algorithm. I have bought all your books, a couple of t-shirts and have watched hundreds of hours of video. I think you two have a great life together because it shows. You deserve all you get in life because you have sacrificed so much and worked very hard. I love you guys!

I always learn something new from watching your videos, even when I rewatch it. It would be nice to see your new version of tutorials: sport, landscape, night and portrait.

Awesome tips for great photography... thanks for sharing

Great video , Learned Lot of Things

Great tips. Look forward to reading the books!!

Thank you for writing your books, I've bought 4 of them and they are great, I really appreciate the time and effort you've put into writing such a great guide to photography

Great video and awesome tips for shooting wildlife photography. Love that while you are recording the video, you are still focused on capturing wildlife! :)

Nice set of tips, thank you.

Outstanding as usual. 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸

Wonderful summary. Thank you.

Thank you this is very important to learn, because I have had the issue with my camera slowing down, and I blamed the battery so I stopped to check the battery; doing so gave the camera time to process.

I like how you split this video up, easy to come back to and reference.

Very nice video. Thank you Chelsea and Tony👏👏👏

Great video, thank you.

Very helpful.....many thanks

You two just 'fit'!! Thanks for the video!

Such a great summary video!

Very helpful video on settings for wild life. Thanks

Your videos are always great

That's very informative. Thank you ❤️

Outstanding tips great value of your experience and real habitat situations have a wonderful day of imaging

Awesome video. Thanks for all the details.

Thanks again, Tony and Chelsea!

I love all these tips. So good to see you get out a little bit.

THANK you for this.

Great video as always, Tony could you setup your prefocus to the lens? so I press and focus in the infinity or where the osprey is flying? thank you.

Some great tips guys but at the end of the day it is all about what works for you. My personal preference with my wildlife photography is to set the camera on manual but with auto ISO. That way I can control the aperture and speed and the ISO will correct for the light levels. Most of the time my aperture remains constant so I just have to adjust the shutter speed depending on the action. I am also able to use exposure compensation whilst in those settings. Thanks for sharing guys. Cheers Keith

Thanks. Well done.

Great to watch both of you. Perfect video.

Thank you so much!!!

Very nice presentation.thank you 💕👍🙏

I am now more than 75 years old and I feel very difficult to control bigger telephoto lens. So I have changed to landscape photography. I am following your channel since more than four years. You both are fantastic!

I love this topic and Tony's nerdy stuff!

Thank’s for the tips

I am so glad you guys made this video. It's great to see you post something that is just about wildlife. I like that you're interested in the kind of photography that I am interested in. You guys rock!

Under exposing by 1-2 stops is the best thing I did when shooting raw.. so easy to pull it up in post, with no loss of image quality to equivalent iso 👍🏻

More Chelsea talk plz! More proportional screen time in the dual vids makes ‘em better imo. (I get it though, I also get excited and can use up a lot of words compared to my partner). Love you both, thanks for all the knowledge!

Please make. A video about gears too... i am thinking of upgrading from rebel t7i .. and i got tamron 150-600g2 lens

Birds be like "Look those two have started tallking to the camera......lets have some fun with them."" 😂😂😂

very useful, good job!

Question, Tony do you shoot Chelsea in the raw? Loved the video. Thanks for the info. I love the Nikon D850. 👍👍

Good stuff! Thanks

Tony is such a nerd 😅. Love them both. Great content...

Have you done a video on settings for sports photography and if not could you please. I'm looking into getting a Sony A7r mark 3 or 4.

Thanks so much

Do you have any tip on looking out for stationary birds on the go? Beside studying certain bird habit and using binoculars and etc.

Nice Tips on wild life

Thank you for the nice video.

On my Nikon's I did change something auto focus related, I forget what it's called, but it effects how long the auto focus waits before it tries to adjust on af-c.

Amazing video as usual!!, Can you talk about Aviation photography? Thanks!

Hi Tony, request you to review Fujifilm XT4 with Fuji 100-400 mm lens for wildlife and compare the results with D500 & A9. Thanks

The focus limiter on your lens is really handy too, especially if you're shooting birds that are far away. That way if you're say from 7 meters to infinity, if you lose focus and it's hunting it'll take way less time to re-acquire focus for a distant subject. On the A7R IV, i agree i don't use hi+ for input lag reasons too, but on the A9 you can go full 20 FPS and it doesn't care and will hit just about every time because it's just that amazing. Also remember silent shutter for A7R IV doesn't have as fast of a sensor read out so it's more prone to rolling shutter than the mechanical shutter...

I really enjoy you guys I learned alot from you. I notice you ues a 1.4 TL . Do you ever use a 2x and if not why.

We love you !!

I bought the Stunning Photography book, excellent. Now I am considering buying Lightroom. Is Chelsea's book update? are you planning a new version soon?

Great tips.Thanks! How about a quick video on using a wide angle lens?

So glad to hear you shoot SP/TV priority Chelsea, I shoot planes (Jets & props) and when people shoot AP and stop props but have a tack sharp image it drives me nuts as it's not showing movement because they props show no spinning.

Have you ever tried the Olympus dot sight for birds in flight? It looks like a good idea but would appreciate a review....

Thanks for the D7200 shoutout, Tony! The buffer may be small but the camera body is a workhorse... I love it! 💕 📸

Hello can you guys test the Sony R4 with the 200-600G?

Hi Tony and Chelsea! I am trying to focus on fast moving birds, like terns, and I find it difficult to focus on them when they are relatively close.. any tips?

I wish I would’ve seen this years ago!! Basically stopped using my 7DMK2 and now using the M50, until R5!! Thank you

Very informative

Thank you

The best always!

Great informative video as always guys! There's just something really sexy about how Chelsea says the word button without pronouncing the hard T LOL best of luck to you guys!

I sometimes use a flash to get rid of the harsh shadow. Flash is great for low light or midday. I shoot with the Tamron 150-600mm g1 on the Canon 77D, and sometimes I have to zoom out, find the bird, focus, then zoom back in, and refocus.

10:40 I had to learn the aperture lesson about long lenses and small birds the hard way. Could've skipped it if this video was around back then. Fortunately I had seen another old video. It discussed the idea of using the shutter speed that definitely works, and then progressively dropping to half. That has been very effective. Then again hopefully I don't have to think about this anymore. I only shot birds because COVID-19 restrictions meant that there was nothing else.

Tony I found my 200-400mm not so sharp on a7r4. Is there any tips for sharp images with this setting?

I wanted to pursue wildlife photograpy but I have a T7 and it has 9 AF points and its super slow. I get decent shots but I can't improve upon until I have better lenses or better body. But its challenging as an amateur so I still plan to pursue it. I'd like it if you could have some tips for wildlife on beginner bodies/lenses

I bought your book!

Great - so much practical information in a short video! One question, at 10:54 Tony mentioned using manual mode, auto ISO, & setting f-stop to get sufficient depth of field. This is how I typically have my camera set for all types of photography. This functions like an auto mode, but both my shutter speed and DoF are controlled. What is the downside of this for everyday use?

Hi Tony and Chelsea , do you turn off the IS for rapid shooting in the lens and camera or do not touch them, handheld? thank you

I always like these videos but when they put up the lenses to take the 📷 photo, that's when I smashed the like button! 📷🐝🐲🐘🐦

If I'm shooting RAW (usually 12-bit) + JPEG (normal) to a single card in my Z50 - would that slow down my frame rate or fill the buffer faster? Is this a bad approach? I also have a D7200 with dual card slots (I write RAW to one and JPEG to the other).

Well said, in addition, if your lens comes with a focus limiter, use it, that way you don't have to worry about keeping your focus distance in the ballpark.

Is it possible to have a camera in aperture priority and auto ISO with f-stop also in auto mode? That seemed to be what Chelsea was saying she uses at about 10:30 in this video.

By the way, using two back buttons like Tony mentioned is a form of pre-focusing. Use the single (or 4-pt, 8-pt expansion) to get the focal plane set on a flying bird, then hit the other button to turn on all the AF points to let the camera grab and hold the bird. This doesn’t work well on most canon bodies but it does work great on the 1DX3! The problem is that only a relative few bodies are advanced enough to let you program two back buttons, sadly.

👏👏👏 wha trail is that ? I like shooting Osprey in the old saybrook causeway

4:55 - Love that checklist!

Looking forward to the animal behavior/finding ,tracking vid, Thank you.

LOL, That's me and my wife at 3:42. Taking the same shot then we would look at each other like "Hey now"

What lenses are you using in this video?

What is your opinion of the 32 mp sensor of the Canon 90d for wildlife. Too much sensor? Tom from NH.

Chelsea do you mind telling the lens you were using. Thanks

Great video for beginners and advance photographers alike the Sony system looks lighter than the Nikon? Great to see more folks getting into wildlife. So these videos are super useful. Keep up the good work LOL