Birds in Flight Photography

Kevin great video kind Sir, love this form of photography and like you say can be challenging to capture a good image. Always looking forward for your next upload and I’m sure that you will keep getting many more Subscribers 👍 always appreciate your time warm regards from Stu..

Awesome so lovely capture

Very very useful guide, must be followed by beginners as well as semi professionals.minutely described.👍👍

Fantastic images and video content. Your images are beautiful, approach creative and interesting. But title should be more catchy and specific to get views you deserve! Use your title graphic "5 Steps to Success for birds in flight photography", "5F's - 5 steps to Fantastic bird photos" "Applying 5 military tactics to capturing great birds in flight photos". Should help to get more views. Personally I would re-edit and upload a shorter, more focused with same great images. Even show tracking/framing etc.. in viewfinder. Also play around with cover image and watch videos rate change for a week. You'll see what people are attracted to. I'm a digital marketing consultant, and think you deserve more success.

Really good tips there & your photographs are stunning. Thank you

Great tips, thank you very much 👍🏼

nice🤍

Hi Kevin, this is the 1st video I've seen of yours and I have to say I'm blown away. Amazing images and footage. I'm about to upgrade to the R6mkii and the RF100-500mm and your advice has been extremely useful. I've really struggled on the R7 with the pulsing focus on the sigma 150-600mm so using the Canon rf lens is a no brainer. Looking forward to watching your past content and future adventures 👏👏

Love your photography Kevin and look forward to your videos!

What a really great video!!! Really easy to understand and concise! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Great video, very useful tips. 👍

Thank you, Kevin. Very practical tips.

Merci pour votre partage .

Thanks again; great tips . Frustration is the one word I understood 😢
They weren't the 5f I use ; F F F F F --- bugga it --- need a better camera ---- goin' home !!

A great step by step explanation, Kevin. One change I would suggest for the placement of feet, is that I feel it is best when the expected flight path is known, to position the stance more to where the bird is going to travel to rather than to where it starts from. Thus, when reaching the firing position, my body is set much more comfortably and more stable. I also use this type of stance when taking the series of frames for creating a panorama photograph.

Excellent tutorial Kevin. Many thanks.

Most of the steps are really just common sense but like they say common sense is quite, rare probably because we take it for granted and look for a "something more" trick instead. It is good to be reminded to take basic common sense steps seriously. Birds in flight have always been my weakness and I just can't seem to get it. I have two favourite excuses😁I only do videos. But the principals are basically the same😐And the 200-600 lens is is just so damn heavy I can't keep it up for long, and it gets more shaky the longer I try. So that's patience out of the window😬So apart from training with weights or practicing holding my breath if you have a "something more" trick up your sleeve for someone like me, I would greatly appreciate it😁👍

I love the way you teach, thanks.

Great video thank you kevin

Great tips! Thanks for taking the time to put this video together.

Thank, Man. You were precise with all your tips, no bla bla. Again, thank you very much.

Amazing teaching video...and beatiful pictures...many thanks Kevin !

so awesome guide for bird flight photography. I have R6 mark 2 with RF 100 to 400. i will take bird photo according to your perfect guideline. if you have any guide say it to me.

Kevin - you are a great teacher - I learnt a massive amount from this - and realised where I have been going wrong! Thank you for taking the time to make and share this video.

As far as settings go, which metering mode to you use on your R6

Thank you for this lesson and tips. Solid video well done!

Thanks 👍

I like to practice at the skeet field...that's 125 flying targets in a round of skeet...incoming targets, crossing targets, etc. The most difficult are close targets coming straight at the photographer. Practice, practice, practice!

Best instructions, step by step I have come across till now. Thanks a lot.❤

What is your take on burst mode? Does it help or hinder beginners and why?

Top tips and info, thank you sir !

A major tip: 400- 600mm tele lens.

Great simplistic explanation and points of birds in flight photography

Kevin, I take a lot of flying bird photos. My biggest problem isn't panning and taking the photo, it's finding the bird when I pick up my camera that has the longer lens on it after shooting a perched bird with a shorter lens and different camera. In between, I spot the bird with my eyes but can't seem to find it quickly as it's about to take off with the camera with the longer lens. Have you heard of that problem before? I wear glasses with progressive lenses, if that makes a difference. I find myself taking the flying photo with the shorter lens to avoid the problem.

Awesome video. Thank you sir

Thank you so much, very helpful

excellent for us new photographers especially with long lenses
thanks

Thanks for a really informative video. Ive subscribed. New to photography and was looking for a particular bird to specialise in. Cant decide so instead im going to specialise in birds in flight as so far they are my favourite shots as a newbie.

Good lesson, thank you

Brilliant advice and very easy to follow will keep watching thank you very much

Thanks Kevin, can’t beat the military for training. Bob.

This is an outstanding video, for which I commend Mr. Hatley

Great video, Kevin! Do you not make use of eye focus animal recognition? You only mentioned zone focusing.