Techniques for shooting wild animals photography

Filming wildlife is very exciting thing, but wildlife and natural scenery is different, shooting opportunity is fleeting. Here are some skills of wild animal photography, which can make your photos to have a better effect.

First, do some research to animals

What kind of animal are you going to shoot? Why do you want to shoot the animals? What environment these animals like to live in? What is the distinguishing feature of their behavior? The more you know, the more likely they are to shoot the photos of the good. Wild animals usually are not so friendly to human beings, they are not in your posing for the camera. Unless is meet by chance, if you want to shoot to the things you want to take, you must know where to find them, when they are most active. And if you want to shoot something special timid or dangerous behaviour, you need to prepare special equipment, used to not let the animals found that you are there.

Second, fully understand the environment

Like all planned to travel, to understand the local situations, the more the more can reduce the occurrence of unexpected circumstances. You should have your destination in the humanities, geography, environment, climate, with as much knowledge, and this knowledge can travel from information, books, magazines, the Internet, also can call or write directly to the local authorities to ask for help. Photography is the art of the light, so for the local climate is of special significance. Should at least know when the light is best, when need special equipment to complete, when it is impossible to get satisfactory pictures.

Third, photographic equipment

Zoom is quite important

For traditional wildlife photographer, we may not be strange, because the photographer is often service for some magazines, for example, national geographic magazine. The photographer, for their part, the lens of the camera is quite long, even with your office for the next holiday party appointed by submarine fort as long, of course, this is just a joke.

But you can be sure that the benefits of long lens there is a big, because when a lot of wild animals were taken, we cannot be too close, after all, we don't know what they think, may be dangerous. Even the wild animals allowed to be near you, you wouldn't do that. At this time, if we want to photograph wild animals, the only way is to stay away from them, and then USES the long to capture their every movement.

At the same time, at the time of filming, we must also consider the authenticity of images, and the effect. In order to make images look more original, we also have to wider capture images, to fill the whole image.

If you don't have to buy a SLR cameras, you buy a fool on the camera should be equipped with zoom level, and should be used on your camera. Even if only a fool camera, you can also make do with, but you have to remember to shut off the digital zoom on the camera model, because this model is not particularly useful in point-and-shoot cameras. In fact, you can expand pixels digital zoom, especially in the middle of the picture; In addition, digital zoom can simulate more zoom. In other words, digital zoom can do things is equivalent to an image editor.

The shutter speed is critical

In fact, the longer the focal length, the greater the impact on photos, because it will cause the camera shake, and then led to the image is not clear. Move very fast, in addition, wildlife and unpredictable, so for a camera shutter speed is quite a requirement, because only the shutter speed to capture instant action. So, the shutter speed to a large extent affected the picture clarity. If the lens of the camera long enough, the shutter speed is fast enough, the lion in the run of the moment, you are completely can capture the image.

As for shooting wild animals, my advice is simple: all the time, all the shutter speed is set to the fastest, and ready to shoot, because wild animals won't wait for you to photograph. Usually, I have set the camera to aperture priority mode, and set the aperture to the best available, so you can push the camera using the fastest shutter speed.

ISO is measuring the sensitivity of the camera light, when filming wildlife, you can also increase shutter speed, so you can better capture their action. For many people, when they are taken at night only increasing the ISO. During the day, but after a long shot, I found that increasing the ISO is quite necessary, sometimes I photograph wild animals in the middle of the day to do the same. Last winter, for example, when I was taken in a cloudy day Wolf, the time is about 3 PM, I transferred to ISO 3200, my camera exposure for about 1/60 of a second. Of course, it also has a drawback, is higher in the ISO image generated by the digital noise. But it is totally worth it, proof of that is the perfect photo.

Fourth, choosing the right time

To choose time has two meanings: one is the filming wildlife must fully consider the wildlife habitat, when active, when to eat, when to rest; 2 it is necessary to consider the light factors, adequate but infectious light is an important factor for a good photo. Considering these two factors to capture the interest is full.

Fifth, choose a different Angle

While filming wild animals is very difficult to have a lot of Angle for you to choose, but sometimes can still find a lot of interesting Angle. Under the condition of allows, you can use the lens with the horizon is flat, and animal eyes and looking down on high Angle, stand at the height of human eyes to observe animals may appear relatively rigid clap a photo. Also sometimes, filming animals back also can produce a quaint effect.

Sixth, as the director of animal

Wild animals will not give you provide any convenience. But, if you can come up with a good solution, is likely to be in the very great degree to wildlife posed as a man you want. For example, you can suddenly make a sound, let the animals you alert, thus the eye on your lens. However, this position will not last long, it will quickly run out soon. So you should to shoot a few scenes, and then to prepare, in a flash to capture an interesting surprised expression.