Hi everyone! And welcome to my second wildlife photography vlog. If you are new to my channel
or these - this series of vlogs then just a disclaimer: I'm a beginner wildlife photographer,
I'm really just learning. I thought that I would document it here on my YouTube channel
'cause I make videos about nature and wildlife and all that sort of stuff. So, yup, welcome
to the video! I am down at a river - was trying to think of the word 'river' there - down
at a river that is near a kind of urban town. Because I thought it was a good place, where
you're guaranteed to see wildlife such as gulls, pigeons, and what I've got behind me
here - or in front of me here - are mute swans. They might not be the most glamorous of animals
to take pictures of, but, they are more or less guaranteed to be here in great numbers.
And they are very used to people, so they are really great to practice your wildlife
photography on because they are unlikely to run away or fly away as soon as they see you.
I am here using my Canon EOS 80D which is my camera that I use for both my videos and
my photography, and with it I have my 75-300mm lens and like I said in my last vlog: it's
not the best lens in the world for image quality, but it has been a really great lens for me
to learn the basics of wildlife photography and practice taking pictures of animals with
a zoom, because that's one of the things I don't feel that people appreciate is how difficult
it is to find an animal through a lens, at 200mm, 300mm. So a lot of people kind of just
think they have to go straight for that big, massive lens. Which is not the case because
you get that sort of lens and then you can't work it. So this has been really good for
me to learn how to find animals through a zoom lens. But yeah, let's get photographing
these swans!
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It's getting down on... their level. So to speak.
Yeaah.
The ironic thing is;
I was just like "guaranteed to see wildlife!" I just walked along here because
I was like "I'll just try and get some pictures of gulls to practice taking pictures of birds
in flight", and I came down here and there's no gulls. Gulls are literally every where,
every other single second of the day. But not when you need them - not when you need them.
So dirty.
We have a lot of gulls here now, I'm trying to practice capturing them in flight
One of the hardest parts is finding it through the lens, especially when you've
got gulls that are literally coming right up to my face. I think they're trying to poop on me.
So I'm like...
So I think today has been slightly more successful than the last
vlog I did, I think I got quite a few quite good shots. But I'll just wrap up the vlog
here because this camera's light is currently flashing red, I think it's going to die any
second. So I'll just say: thank you so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed and I'll
maybe see you next time. Bye.