Nature Photography Tips For Beginners

This is the first in a two-part series of Nature Photography tips for beginners by Pangolin Photo Host Janine Krayer. This video is on your basic camera set up mentioning the five most important settings: focusing, metering, frame rate, white balance, and picture style.

All the information in the tutorial covers the settings Janine wishes someone had told her right at the start of her wildlife and nature photography journey.

Timestamps:

0:30 Introduction to Nature photography tips for beginners
1:34 Focus Settings
5:09 Frame Rate Settings
7:03 Metering and exposure compensation settings
11:30 White Balance settings
12:45 Picture Style and control settings

We are Pangolin Wildlife Photography based in The Chobe, Northern Botswana. When we are not making videos for our channel we host our guests and clients from all over the world on our Wildlife Photography safaris throughout Botswana and the rest of Africa..and beyond sometimes too!

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[PangolinWildlife]

Which of these settings would you rank as the most important to master?

[imprintedmind]

Wonderful explanation on camera control

[ro]

This is one of the best channels for truly learning wildlife photography.

[sabracadabra]

Thanks Janine! I always get to pick up something new from your videos. The content for your channel is consistently excellent.

[lisaschwerdt]

showing/seeing examples of settings differences was helpful

[wilduntamedphotography]

Remember when we talked about this beginners guide in Botswana recently, very well done & explained Janine!

[nitinbhide]

Thanks for very Nice Tutorial in wild life photography.

[artl.]

Thanks for the intro video to wildlife photography. Good content and information for both beginners and season photographers not use to shooting wildlife. I specifically liked the important points to consider that you highlighted: continuous focus, focus type, exposure (iso, shutter speed and aperture), metering type selection, frame rate, white balance and jpeg or raw.

I look forward to part 2 of this session to fine tune this information to put this to practice. I also like the other videos from your channel. Very helpful and gives one more incentive to go on a wildlife safari.

[vulcan]

Excellent presentation. Janine always does a very good job of explaining the concepts for wildlife photography. As an avid user of back button focusing and AI Servo for moving subjects, I can confirm these techniques are critical to capturing these sorts of images. The Pangolin channel is terrific!

[georgemccormick]

Thank Janine, got some good info from the vid, am new to your channel and am enjoying your instructional videos on Lightroom as I am just starting out in editing, am not a newbie to photography but being 77 years old it’s taken me a while to catch up with the technology but your helping with that part. Thanks again.

[ruudthoomes]

Great video, thanks for all these usefull tips!

[mikeyphoto]

very helpful and easily explained thank you!

[heroguidenj]

This is very interesting and well articulated . I'm learning a lot here...Thanks Janine

[buggersofoz]

Awesome all in one video! Even if it just provided me with some validation of the things I've learned from your other videos, it's so good to remind yourself of the basics! Great job!!!

[lachlangraham]

Great video Janine. For me the most important one as a DSLR user was exposure compensation, in conjunction with selecting the right metering mode to use. The AWB and autofocus were pretty good on my gear out of the box, so I did not have to worry about those so much. I have developed rules of thumb like if I’m shooting a bird against a bright sky, start at +2. Again great stuff, much appreciated.

[mxyptlk]

Thanks to the whole team there for such pleasant clear concise information on every aspect of photography...!! Definitely the most well presented channel I have found on YouTube . I will enjoy looking at more of your content 🙏🏻

[karenc]

Thank you so much for making these videos. You always present the information in a straightforward, easy to understand manner. I appreciate your lessons, and hope to join one of your safaris in the future.

[joannemeadows]

Thanks Janine, some very helpful tips. I am new to your channel and trying to work out some kinks with my 1DX M11. I primarily shoot dog shows. So always a moving target. I have been really struggling with the AF as sometimes not the whole dog is in focus. Or the body is and not the head. I have done a factory reset on the camera and have changed my settings based on yours and your teams fabulous tutorials. One day would love to do a safari :)

[MikeAscione]

Gran bella descrizione, all'inizio sembrava piu' difficile ma poi tutto fila liscio. Grazie

[andresalgadomarques]

I love your channel and your videos. It's incredible, these days, how much useful and rich information we get from talented professionals on the Internet and completely free! Thank you for your hard work and dedication! 🙏🙏🙏