Very nice images, and information on how to get them. Think those last few pics at shutter speeds over 1/8000 exhibit 'rolling shutter' due to the use of the electronic shutter. Slightly deformed, but beautiful still.

Great tips thanks for sharing 👌👍😀

Thank you for sharing this great video. The pictures are really impressive. This distortion effect is called "rolling shutter effect" If you use an electronic shutter, the camera will read out the sensor line by line. Pictures of very fast moving objects will be distored.

I knew about pre focusing on fresh air and about building a perch but restricting access to the "bait" is something I'd over looked. Mike's tips are great shortcuts to help me get better results.

I can’t believe I have been so late to discover this fabulous treasure trove of information for people like me who love to appreciate the beauty of birds through the medium of photography!!! I hope you tell us everything you know! This is worth paying for!!!!

Great tips. Well done for both you and your late friend. I enjoy your videos and presentation style. Thanks from Alberta, Canada.

SUper shots Mike. I have had some success with this method too but I like your idea of reducing the landing site further. The last images with the curved wings at super high shutterspeeds look like the effect of rolling shutter which can be a feature of electronic shutters.

NICE PICTURES YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME

Those last two images show what is called "rolling shutter". It is interesting, sometimes but it is a defect in the camera's system. I don't understand the details that cause it but I do recognize it when I see it. It was Duade Paton that explained it and he has a program just on that. It has to do with the electronic shutter system I believe.

Superb video and tips Thank you.

Fantastic photography. Sad to hear Philip Newman died.

Excellent images and great explanation: thank you. I have photographed Goldfinches and Greenfinches flying onto a feeder in the past. They often squabble, with one on the feeder flying to meet another attempting to displace it, and an aerial squabble ensues. In ProCapture I set one edge of my chosen AF mode against the feeder then, with both eyes open (as I would if firing a shotgun), release the shutter as soon as the bird leaves the feeder or I see one coming in. This method works best on a cold, sunny day, as there are more birds and more aerial squabbles.

Excellent work 👍👌👁

Fantastic photos.

I'm so glad to see it wasn't just me! I started this last year and probably have a half dozen shots I'm proud of. I love the idea of placing the stick nearby for them to land on and will be giving this a try to hopefully up my numbers. Thank you!

I can't wait to try this out! Wonderful information!

Fantastic! Thanks a lot, Mike

Another great practical video! I like your tips!

Thanks for the advice! Will try it out ASAP. Lovely photos!

Simply fantastic Mike! Thank you for sharing your tips with us!

Incredible Mike - Thank you!

Thanks for your videos Mike. They're great.

Great thanks for sharing!

Wow! This video is so nice! Thank you for sharing!

Fantastic Video, great Tips!

Fabulous images. Thank you

Thanks Mike very informative great images.

They look like little angels! Gorgeous photos

Very many thanks Mike. I'm definitely going to try this for sure - also got other projects inspired by you queuing up 😊

Great pictures and handy tips, thanks.

amazing shots Mike

Fascinating! Thanks for a great video. I'm going to try this when spring comes to my area near Cincinnati OH.

Stunning shots here Mike. Thank you so much for sharing.

Thank you, a great idea and so pleased you are getting those results with Olympus. Will give it a try.

outstanding! Thank you for sharing!

What a challenge.Terrific images and good ideas thank you.

5:53 👍

Thank you so much for sharing your experience

Thanks Mike very informative video and amazing photos

Fabulous photography Mike

Wooww Perfect Timing Mike Amazing Picture

Great captures and setup for getting small birds to a feeder - thank you!

Very nice AND INFORMATIVE TY

Thanks for this detailed vlog, I am certainly going to give it a go when there is enough light. Thanks and stay safe

Always a pleasure to come here to watch your videos and learn while enjoying at the same time!

Another excellent video Mike, always enjoyable and I always look forward to them. Although very interesting I think you’ll find the bendy wings are as a result of the electronic shutter, still fabulous though. Keep up the great work, most of us really appreciate the effort and time it all takes.

I'll try this technique in my garden when the weather turns cold. Thanks for the informotive video Mike.👍

Thank you Mike. You have a great knack at explaining your techniques so very simply. Thanks again

Thanks for the great tips.

Great job thank

Your knowledge and fieldcraft skills are amazing, learning so much!! Thank you.

New subscriber!! ....Great video ! Amazing shots for such small birds .... will def try this out with my local daily visitors 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎

Brilliant very helpful and informative. Many thanks for sharing.

Wow, that is amazing. I'll try this tomorrow for sure. Hope to get success like you did. Again, just beautiful. Thanks for sharing. I can't wait to see your next video.

Nice tips. Have to try this one!

Amazing Mike, thanks a lot for the videos and sharing your experience and knowledge. All the best

Great video. Thanks, Mike

I have only one thing to say Mike WOW WOW WOW.

Amazing!

Great tips.

Wow!! I have never seen birds look so gorgeous!!. You, sharing your skills, means this kind of thing isn't lost for the future. Thankyou!

So simple and elegant. Thank you for sharing

Hi Mike, absolutely love your channel and found myself going through your whole catalogue, learning massively from the time and effort you have put into creating your very enjoyable content, I am shooting with a Sony A73 and A7R4 and recently started to explore the video capabilities, I too love slow motion wild life videos, I am retired so have plenty of time to learn and practice, spent quite a lot of time searching for my local wildlife using trail cameras and recently purchased a thermal imaging camera too but more for the dark early winter evenings. Please keep up the great work and many thanks for sharing your vast amount of knowledge and experience :-)

Many thanks Mike for sharing your technical tips. Great pictures ! J-Y (France)

Many thanks Mike for sharing your techniques with us, as I am sure a lot have struggled to get cracking images like you have.

Hi Mike, another excellent video, I do very similar to you in my back garden, since I went to Olympus I used Procapture High, & manual prefocus, I fire the shutter as soon as the bird leaves the perch and bingo. As you know the number of frames can be tailored and the electronic shutter = no wear and tear on the camera so EM1X is pretty good for this set up. I still have quite a number or images to sift through but not so many as in the old days when I use Canon.

Very helpful content -- will try some of your techniques in my back garden

Super fotografie...

Thank you, sir. This is quite informative and It may help me get the BIF shots I'm literaly craving for.

This is so helpful, i'm a beginner wildlife photographer and think I need to try your tips in this video! I've been trying to get birds in flight and they are SO hard! Thanks for the advice and putting this video on KZread for people like me :)

Brilliant

Superb images 😍

your friend was a GENIUS!!! I will give this a try!!! thank you. (we all need friends like your friend 😊)

Nice video Mike. I agree, it's all about redirecting and restricting the flight paths. Trying to photograph small birds flying and/or landing where they want to is too difficult. Thanks for sharing!

Great tips Mike, it has to be one of the hardest things to photograph as I tried it myself a few months ago. Out of nearly 400 pics I got 2 that were reasonable. Cheers Keith

I've been trying to get good birds in flight for months finally got some My g9 miss focus some times mostly user error

Great pics, didn’t mention the lens of f stop? Or shot on remote? Ta for sharing 👍😀📸

Fantastic

Awesome

Awesome technique. I bought new telephoto lens with new camera and I trying to get good birds in flight photos... Unfortunately, it is very hard to get razor sharp photos of the birds. I appreciate that you share your experience. Thank you.

I think my E-M1iii has that 60fps mode. Will need to try that out on the dunnocks :)

Brilliant video sir. Very educational

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

Since it is a fixed location, why not setup an OCF? That will also help freeze the birds in flight and make them look extremely sharp, even on a cloudy day. Yes, I understand this comes at the expense of burst shooting, but I think you'd still get some excellent results.

Fantastic photos! I'm keen to give this a go. It just dawned on me that I don't know what my cameras fast shutter speed is. ( Just had a Google looks like 1/8000 second is the fastest shutter speed).

Thanks, Mike. Have you also been using the Capture Pro mode? And the Olympus mobile app, allowing to operate the camera shutter from distance?

@MikeLaneFRPS

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, Yes I have used both. I have KZread videos where I have used them.

Stunning photos and very helpful advice, thanks. It would be interesting to hear what your ideal aperture is for this kind of work, and, if you have the time, what the main advantages are of an Olympus MFT. My only experience is with Canon mirrorless, and, due to poor technique no doubt, a hit rate so far of about 0.5% with flying birds...

@MikeLaneFRPS

3 жыл бұрын

Aperture will vary depending on how much light is available and how close is the background. I swopped from Canon to Olympus because Canon were slow to take mirrorless seriously. Now they have the R5 and R6 and I would be happy to use either system.

you do a remarkable job, I love your videos but for that you use which focus mode, i have the omd em1x too (af-c or af-s) if I use the pro cap mode you advise me which mode of focus

@MikeLaneFRPS

3 жыл бұрын

At 60fps Pro-capture your camera will not C-af. Only s-af will be available. At 18fps you can choose either. Which you choose depends on the subject. A static lizard where you want to capture the tongue flickering out use S-af. If the subject is likely to move C-af.

@oranais3167

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS thank you very much for the answer, i will try this with the kingfisher

With time on my hands and not having the requisite posts to carry the modified bird feeder, I decided to build a rig which I am hoping will work as well as your set up Mike. For the perch, I am using a wooden garden spade - a prop which I have used before in the garden when taking photographs of small birds. I have published my design on Thingiverse www.thingiverse.com/thing:4622814

Do you recommend shooting in manual so I can stop down the aperture as well to get the whole bird sharp? I would assume an aperture of f/8 or f/11 is needed for such small birds

@MikeLaneFRPS

2 жыл бұрын

Shutter speed has to the priortiy for birds in flight, but if there is enough light yes close the aperture down if you can. It does not matter whether you do this manually or otherwise.

Rolling shutter 😂

I am still struggling with this, on my EM1X I tried n tried , cannot get the depth of field enough ( I had to go for f4 on my 300mm Zuiko for enough light) , it is literally razor thin DOF and bird can miss the plane of focus. there has to be a way your friend discovered to solve the DOF.

What f stop would you use?

@MikeLaneFRPS

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes wide open. other times closed down. Shutter speed is the priority. With the latest camera I have, Sony A1, noise levels are so good shooting at a very high iso's that closing down to f11, f16 will be very possible.

Which lens?

@MikeLaneFRPS

3 жыл бұрын

Different pictures with different lenses. This sort of subject would normally be a medium range. 300 to 400mm.

@makvideos9043

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Thank you very much for this great idea! Just some first shots with bad light and while testing various setups: schrell.de/Fotos/BirdsInFlight - happy with them as a first try

You're not saying the shutter speeds correctly. 8 thousandths of a second is not the same as 1 8oooth of a second.!

Great captures and setup for getting small birds to a feeder - thank you!