Wildlife Photography : The Best Camera Settings for Shooting Wildlife

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When shooting wildlife in photography, the photographer will not normally want to be close up, so it’s important to have a camera that has great zoom capabilities. Learn about using wide settings when shooting wildlife photography with help from the owner of a photography business in this free video on camera settings. Expert: Kight Haberer Contact: actionshootersphotography.com Bio: Kight Haberer has a degree in photography from the University of North Texas. He is the owner of Action Shooters Photography, which is based out of Fort Worth, Texas. Filmmaker: Kevin Haberer

19 thoughts on “Wildlife Photography : The Best Camera Settings for Shooting Wildlife”

  1. Too Right, Mid day is the worst time for wildlife, insects are too active to get close to, birds are lit from above so they are hard to expose right when in flight and the light is boring. This guy obviously doesn’t shoot wildlife.

  2. Oh boy, don’t listen to any of what is said in this video. First of all, you do NOT shoot in the middle of the day, that’s the worst time. Best time is early morning when light is less harsh and wildlife is more active. Second, you do not just set your lens at wide open aperture and let it fly. Depending on the lens and focal length, you may need to stop down the lens to a smaller aperture to keep your subject fully in focus. Better to up the ISO to compensate than to get out-of-focus photos.

  4. I heard the 80-400mm is very slow, what do you find it to be like?

  5. i think the best setting is get out there yourself and from your own experience you can do your setting according to your style.

  7. when shooting wolves you dont just bring a big telephoto lens you should be carrying a gun too

  8. Nah,not middle of the day! Thats the worst time to be shooting. Early morning and late evening are the best times for light and activity.

  9. cool thanks for the tips i usually try to shoot with my aperature all the way open myself on bright days it usually goes around 1/3000 and up on ISO 200

  11. its basically the same. when you use the teleconverters it bumps that f-stop up to around 4.6 to 5.6 so i would go with what ever you can afford better

  12. What are your opinions on whether it would it be better to get a 70-200mm f/2.8 (nikon or sigma) and a teleconverter(1.7x or 2.0x), or a higher sigma 120-400mm lens but has an fstop of 4.5-5.6?

  13. Hello I was wondering if you could help me with wildlife photography? I have a Sony A-300 10.2 meg camera with a 18mm-70mm and a 55mm-200mm lens can you tell me what settings to use for it? You can contact me at cacklin1@yahoo.com. Thanks for your help in advance….

  15. yea it works fine, but if you can sacrifice a little zoom, the 70-200mm f4 L lens is great too. about the same price in canada aswell

  16. wildlife is morning buissness a natgeo wildlife photographer said he wakes up at 4-5 am and then he goes to the spots and spends the whole day there.

  18. So more light is better then, landscapes normally go for sunset wildlife for midday.