How to Attract and Photograph Birds in Your Own Backyard

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If you’re interested in photographing birds, this tutorial is the one for you. After watching it, you’ll know what kind of equipment to use, how to set up a bird feeding station in your backyard, how to create a set to make your bird photos really pop, and how to actually make the pictures when the birds show up. You’ll have all the tools you need to get started.

20 Comments
  1. Oswald Pietzsch says

    Thank you for your really inspiring video. I've learned a lot from it.
    Greetings from Germany.

  2. Russ Hawkins says

    Please don't use red food coloring bad for birds and not needed. make your own sugar water 4 cups water to1 cup sugar.

  3. Sue Collins says

    I use a Canon Powershot SX60HS. It was R5 600 plus R500 for the 32GB card. I designed a chest mounted camera carrier that I made from a baby carrier and it works like a dream. I can't tell I'm carrying a camera.

  4. VIGNESH WARAN says

    awesome video

  5. Video man says

    Nothing cheap about a $1200 lens. How about a 50mm $150 tripod wireless shutter release and a flash on a stand to stop action set at 1/15th of a sec. You can cover the camera with camo. set it close enough to get the shot you can always crop later. set the flash on a stand slave it from your camera. You have to at least have a camera.
    Here is some inexpensive thing to help.
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  6. Ken Deininger says

    I like your video..Nice job, some cool shots…Because you like birds you might like my video on Identifying birds..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-p-VFuUT0 Please feel free to comment and subscribe..Like to hear your thoughts Thanks for sharing.

  7. Star Drawsz says

    1100$ ???!!! I’d rather buy a $100 one

  8. Forster Stewart says

    Tele converters tend to soften images. But yes they will extend your reach. My favorite combo 7d mark ii paired with the canon 100mm-400mm mark ii without teleconverter. With the 1.6 crop factor it works perfect.

  9. John Jackson says

    Great job with the video and explaining the process of taking backyard and roadside pictures of birds. Thanks for educating us.

  10. Nicolas Thorpe says

    Very useful and informative video, thank you.

  11. Jackie Hooks says

    Loved your video.

  12. Jeff Cameron says

    In Florida if I created a pond a gator would move in. Good video. Never thought of building a habitat.

  13. Bill Dillon says

    Thank you for sharing your techniques

  14. Dennis92NL says

    Excellent video

  15. Nancy Pirrello says

    i don't know how to use photoshop and also I don't believe that one should use it. If you want to show your skill it has to be natural

  16. Nancy Pirrello says

    Hi, I have been shooting this peacock repeatedly and somehow it always comes out with motion blurr….how can I do this , whilst the bird has all its feathers on display and give its best sharpness. I have taken hundreds of photos and still havent found the right one that I want to use for my canvas print due to slight "focus problem"

  17. WildPhotoShooter says

    I would dispute the comment that you can't walk more than 200yds with a 600mm f4.

    I have been out all day with my 600mm f4 on a fluid Vinten head on a Manfrotto and Ive walked for miles and Im 59 yrs old ….but I am reasonably fit.

    When you carry one of these lenses for a long time its like a gym work out and the more you lift it the stronger you get.

  18. Our Craft Factory says

    Thank you!

  19. Raisa Digital Studio says

    good

  20. Raj Toor says

    love your last clip of hummingbird. wonderful !

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