How To Get the Best Image Quality for Free

Learn how to increase image quality without upgrading your gear. I give tips on image quality and demonstrate how to achieve it in the field. I hope you enjoy, Cheers, Duade
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Chapters
00:00 Image Quality
00:36 Two Key Elements
00:58 Image Quality Defined
02:59 Light Value
05:16 Size of Subject
07:36 In The Field
10:02 Conclusion
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Music
Pretty Little Liar - Epidemic Sound

[joelmspencer]

Great video, and it just goes to show how you don't need an expensive Camera to get great results. I just came 2nd in a competition out of 9, 800 photos and used my Canon 80D and £150 10-18mm EFS Landscape Lens.

[PaulGibbings]

Really good that you demonstrate that you don't need the latest gear and spend the huge sums of money to get great images.

[Kellysher]

Duade, I’m a long time fan and really enjoying these master classes. You always make me think. I actually hear your voice in my head sometimes saying, “ where else would you want to be !” I shoot the R5 100-500 and do struggle in early morning light, but I’ve used your tips to continually improve. One thing that has dawned on me recently is to pull back the lens to about 420 mm to get an aperture of 6.3. I’m also trying to get better at handholding with lower shutter speeds, which is a challenge for me. The other challenge I have is to not take the shot if the conditions aren’t right and to just try and enjoy the experience. Cheers from a random little town in the USA!

[benoutside]

Excellent video! Really enjoy these Master Class videos. Hope you keep them coming. I think seeing you work with the 40D and demonstrating how you can still get nice images with the older camera by using your tips and advice is what makes them very interesting and encouraging for newer photographers.

[joemurray]

More fantastic guidance and insight into photography Duade - Thank you so much. I'm even more excited about your posts these days as I have a four week driving vacation to Western Australia planned for Late June (Starting in Perth and driving up the coast to Exmouth) So as you can imagine I am really looking forward to the wonderful Australian light rather than struggling through our English Summer of cloud and rain.

Thanks for all the tips!!

[janas]

As always a good learning experience with you.
Your combination of camera and lens just proves how important the lens is in photography.
That's why I recommend that 2/3 of your budget should go towards objectives if you starting from scratch.

[Private]

Great ideo as always Duade! What I really like about your videos is the RAW image out of the camera. It shows the power of post-processing when done right. I usually am disappointed by the images when I pull them out of the camera, but from your videos, I understood that you need to "help" you images standout.

A 3rd perspective video, like this one, which shows you in the process of photography is always informative.

I would love to see a video with tips on shooting smaller birds or birds in a canopy - my part of the woods has dense or tall trees and birds can only be seen in them.

[FranciscoLopez-Machado]

Hi Duade. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain the technical details behind your magnificent photos. I have 12 years of experience in macro photography and just 2 years in bird photography, and your videos have been incredibly helpful in improving this new facet of my work as a biologist and nature photographer. Greetings from Colombia (Soon my greetings will be from South Australia!) 😃😃😃

[amberlangham]

Hi Duade,
Just wanted to say thank you so much for your channel. I have been devouring your videos and have learned so much since coming across your content. I was watching them and thinking, there is something about this guy, he’s really familiar. Then I realized that you had done a talk at a school I worked at on road safety! What an incredible coincidence!
I have just started getting into bird photography, after starting out not too long ago with a focus on sports. I was (still am) extremely burnt out from work, and have taken this year to find myself again. I cannot describe adequately the sense of calm and joy I feel heading out on walks and taking photos. I’m very lucky as I live near a lake, so the opportunities are endless. I still have so much to learn but it’s been a great adventure so far. Thanks for all that you do! Amber

[AlbertD]

Duade, This series has been fantastic. As a new photographer it's been extremely helpful. Thank you

[TimLucasdesign]

WOW - with a Canon 40D!!! Makes me rethink upgrading my old Canon EOS R!

[stevechilvers]

Another master class video Duade. These latest set of videos have been so informative & useful. Keep them coming. If you have time, could you do a video on how much post processing you do & the techniques you use. Many thanks again.

[klburt]

Duade, thanks so much for this type of video. It's what led me to subscribe to your channel a year or two ago. I've shared them with friends on FB, and many of them have remarked how helpful they are. Really look forward to your videos that show how to approach some aspect of wildlife photography no matter what gear a person has!

[msyuan]

I always enjoy your videos. I love this approach of showing your results from having used less than state of the art equipment. Currently, there’s all this buzz about the R1 and the R5 mk II. When these come out, they will be great cameras, but we will still take mediocre images without the good techniques you’ve been covering in this series. Paying attention to these videos and putting these techniques into practice will likely improve your images more than a fancy new camera body — at considerably less cost! I’d love to see an outline of what’s to come in your master class series.

[brianmckeever]

Great example of a successful cheap-camera challenge! Love the black cockatoos. I saw one in at a wildlife park in Australia and just loved it.

[WernerBirdNature]

G'day Duade, all good arguments mate ! A nice video to watch while being stuck on a very windy and rainy day in Scotland .. even the BBC wonders "where has summer gone in Scotland" .. but it looks like things are improving the next days

[dgirard]

I love the down to earth way you find to show the technic. Verry effective.

[Bareetnavn]

I just know it’s a good day when you upload, your videos are truly exceptional good!

[jonathanfryer]

You are right about light quality in Australia.
In the UK, we are having a long, wet, gloomy spring.
This is the first spring i've had my camera - so annoying.
And i like small birds - very frustrating but when you grab a good shot it's more rewarding. Butbin gloomy light and with shade from the woodland leaves - nightmare.
Thank you for the vudeo.

[Hodenkat]

Thanks Duade! I think it's tough to remember some of these things when excitement creeps into your head. It seems to be planning is key here. Look for things in the right places, not just trying to get good shots that may be in the wrong places. That's the tough part of nature photography. You can't always get to the "right places" at the "right times". I'll see something I'd love to take shots of on the other side of a lake, but without a boat I'll never make it there in time to catch the action. The next time, I'm making sure I'm in that spot FIRST!