Student Projects/Wildlife photography

Wildlife photography is a genre in photography that include capturing the wilderness or vivid behaviour of animals in real time at their natural habitat. Wildlife photography is unique as it captures the real, eternal – attitude, behaviour of an wildlife. Along with photography skills, a photographer actually needs field skills. It is not just capturing photos on a short visit to national parks but it is clicking the image of rarest species of wildlife or the wildlife in a unique way. This requires the patience of a sprout.

Definition

According to the photographic society of America, Royal photographic society , Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique “ the development of a common definition for nature and wildlife photography will be an important step in helping photographers , many of whom enter competitions internationally, know what the rules are. It will also provide organisers with a very definition when they need to deal with the problem of ineligible images. Lewis Blackwell , Wildlife photographer of the year 2015 : “ A great photograph is one of the most immediate , emotionally connecting ways of getting people think about a subject “.

History

The first wildlife photographer was George Shiras lll. He was described as “ father of wildlife photography “ by national geographic for his use of camera traps and flash photography. Earlier to this photos of pet animals, stuffed and zoo animals were taken i.e capturing their life in a make believe environment.

Equipments for photography

Camera bodies : This is a generation of improving camera technology. Owning a camera body is not based on how cheap or expensive the camera is, but on how and what you would like to specialise in.
Wide angle prime lenses : on a full camera; lens with focal length of 35mm are wide angle lens while 24mm is ultra wide angle lens. On planning for film making or documenting wide angle lenses mark their way.
Wildlife blinds : Being a wildlife photographer implies possessing field skills. Wildlife blinds are very much in hand to stay concealed and capture your subject in its comfortable environment.