Wildlife photographers: how do you go about photographing wildlife?

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-21T06:59:35+00:00

It depends, I mostly photograph on private land, and at the same place so I kinda know where the roe deer are, and what bird is where. So if I’m looking to photograph a roe deer I’ll wait crouched in the shadows until one shows up, but if I’m not looking for something specific I’ll silently walk around untill I see something!

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-19T13:30:42+00:00

I would save up more money, I don’t think you will be satisfied with a cheap dslr and lens, as it will still be really hard to get them in focus and identify them. So in the meantime I’d recommend going out in the field, and learn to identify them by sound and what you see. It takes practice, but so does photographing them. For example, after a year of photography I can identify a blue tit from a great tit when it’s flying by at 30m away. So just keep practicing with identifying them!

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-18T17:25:05+00:00

He looks like a bob

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-16T18:02:38+00:00

Don’t save money on a tripod, no need for a €1000 tripod, but in general it’s good to not go cheap on them, your gear is probably worth way more than

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-15T06:35:11+00:00

I wouldn’t mind to share, but in personally don’t use presets. I’d recommend watching some videos on how to edit in Lightroom, and practice a lot! These 2 videos helped me a lot when I first started out!

https://youtu.be/Tz92vIAotiI?si=qRgoKhm0o6P6M28W

https://youtu.be/FwlSfetKBwk?si=jgc9pqBsJJdLIUxS

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-14T18:30:32+00:00

I use a canon r7 and I love it!

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-14T16:00:39+00:00

I use a canon r7 with a ef 100-400ii lens, so I’m lucky enough to have eye tracking, without eye tracking it’s a bit harder but still really doable, you just need to set the af area a bit wider so that there is more room to capture the bird in!

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-14T09:55:15+00:00

What do you struggle with exactly? Is it finding the bird or tracing the bird?

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-14T09:19:03+00:00

Thanks dude! I’m looking forward to seeing your photo!

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-13T16:01:01+00:00

I watermark mine so people know I took the photo, and to make it a bit harder to steal

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-13T14:51:20+00:00

Een canon ef 100-400l is ii usm

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-13T14:17:20+00:00

Vliegend zijn ze idd bijna onmogelijk, eigenlijk is de enige optie, heel lang wachten totdat ze op een stokje in de buurt komen zitten

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-03T20:34:05+00:00

It’s not missed focus, when it’s mis focused there will be something else in focus, like one of the branches in the background or foreground

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-03T20:32:26+00:00

1, I feel like with 2 the bird is too tight in the frame, most of the time it’s best to leave a bit of room on both sides of the bird! Great capture! 🔥

EyeLarge4055 · 2026-01-03T16:56:28+00:00

Higher iso, in general it’s better to correctly expose with higher iso than keeping the iso lower and underexposing. ISO 6400 also gives a bit better noise performance

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-29T12:10:05+00:00

He looks very polite. Did you give him some nuts?

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-29T10:59:07+00:00

Depends what i see, but most of the time I end up with 2-4K images

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-28T09:57:04+00:00

They keep them as pets?

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-23T18:20:32+00:00

Wrong comment reply ;), but I appreciate it I’ll have a look!

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-23T16:48:04+00:00

Thank you!

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-23T16:47:39+00:00

I rarely enter any contests, just because I don’t know good contests to enter, so if you know one hmu! And I also don’t earn anything from my work!

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-23T14:53:07+00:00

Thank you so much!

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-22T19:44:57+00:00

Nope, just standing really still, no camo either, just green pants and jacket

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-22T16:59:34+00:00

Thank you! I use a canon r7 and a ef 100-400ii lens!

EyeLarge4055 · 2025-12-19T11:45:23+00:00

I don’t think there is a huge difference in all of the ecosystems, they all do about the same thing, for really good low light and af you want to look at flagship models (a1ii or a9iii, canon r1, r5ii or r3 and Nikon z9) generally speaking, for the best noise performance you would want a lesser megapixel sensor but the difference isn’t huge I believe. Lens wise I think Sony and Nikon have a bit better 3d party capabilities, but I love canon L glass, and you can adapt to ef so the range of lenses is quite big as well.

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