Wildlife Photography Tutorial with the Canon R7!

Great video. My favourite tip is don’t put the camera away until you are about to get into your car. The bird you want might be in a tree right next to your car in the car park. How do I know this…

Thank you! I cut my teeth years ago on the Canon AE-1, joined the mirrorless club nearly 10 years ago with the Sony a6000, and now I'm thrilled to be back with Canon via the amazing R7. Your clear, no nonsense videos have been one of my favorite guides and I hope will continue to be.

Thank you Chelsea and Tony for this tutorial. In the next few month I will "upgrade" from my beloved 7D2 to the R7 but I will stay with my EF L lenses, the 70-200 L f/2.8 and f/4 and 100-400 L USMII and mz 1.4x and 2x extenders. My 7D2 will stay as a backup camera - I never ever sell this great peace of camera! I have learned making wildlife phtotography with this camera lenses. My main subjects are rabbits, squirrels and so on. Hope the eze fokus system detects this animals as well as birds. Thank you both for all your great content that helps me very much, thank you. And I will looking forward for all your new videos here on YT.

Thanks for the R7 review. Been a photographer since 1973 using a bunch of classic film cams. Now I own a R7. You guys rock.

Brilliant video. This video is priceless to those new to Wildlife and will help you far better than buying a more expensive camera and not fully understanding how the key photographic features work. Ian (UK)

Thank you!! I'm finally making the leap into Mirrorless and your videos help differentiate the cameras, and this video in particular, shows me why I want to use certain settings, not just tell me settings to use. Bird photography is one of my favotire subjects to shoot. I've used Canon for years.

Great video. Just starting to get interested in wildlife photography and that has given me lots of tips . Keep the videos coming as they always s joy to watch.

Thanks for sharing another wonderful video like always, I am super happy that I got my new R7 yesterday, I love the camera, it's awesome 📸❤️🐦

This is the best, most helpful video I've seen on this. Thank you!! And you both are so enjoyable to watch.

Really found this video helpful in so many ways, such clear explanations on how to change settings and why. THANK YOU!

Great review, I have been shooting animals in general for years. Shot with Rebel, the D7 Mark II and now, I finally got R7 and love the camera. Haven't been able to get out to shoot the wildlife yet, because of how busy we have been, but did shoot some dogs and it is amazing, how the camera captures fast with great focus and great light. I absolutely love the outcome of this amazing camera and the price tag is very good, for this specific camera as well. Thank you for reconfirming that this is a great camera in general, but most importantly for the wildlife, which I am still going to try it on with variety of species and lenses, hence macro and telephoto to capture variety of wildlife.

Thank you Tony and Chelsea for a first-class video as always.

Great video on the R7 camera and bird photography tips! Thanks Tony an Chelsea!

Great wildlife photography tutorial. Tony and Chelsea you are the best !!!

Excellent video! I'm moving on from a Nikon D5600 (and I'm still pretty new to that), and as everyone has told me, "there's gonna be a steep learning curve." Both Tony and Chelsea's tips are excellent introductions to bird photography with this camera. The most useful tips for me at this moment are setting up the eye autofocus, setting back-button autofocus (I always use it) and setting up exposure compensation for light-colored birds against a light background. The LEAST useful (for me) is the recommendation for a $13 k lens! One thing that might have been worth exploring is the use of non RF lenses with appropriate adapters.

I was all set to move from a T3i to a 90D and the guy at Hunt Camera in Melrose, MA gently steered me to the R7. After watching this video it was totally the right purchase! Can’t wait to get the battery charged to start shooting. Both the still and the moving tips for birds were perfect. Thank you! Love knowing that I can preset the setting for each condition. Also, love your presentation, clear, not hyped, and seriously informative! As for the best tip? Moving the stop down a few click for egrets, etc. makes prefect sense. Thank you for that! BTW - You have a new subscriber! ✌️

Thank you for this tutorial! I've had the R7 for close to a year now, but haven't tried too much bird photography. But my biggest takeaway, my personal "A-HA!" moment had nothing to do with birding, but was learning how to save the settings in a Custom profile!

Great tips! For perched birds, silence, so electronic shutter. For birds inflight, 1st curtain shutter to avoid the rolling shutter problem associated with electronic shutter. However the RAW burst and pre-shooting features, which promise to up your chances of capturing quick, unexpected moments requires use of electronic shutter.

Thanks Tony and Chelsea. Most appreciated.

A very underrated wildlifephotography tip is to ALWAYS bring a camera with you