Eco-photography base knowledge
Eco-photography involves a wide range, from plants to birds, insects and flocks of wild animals photo. In addition to being used in advertising their goods outside, but also made important educational publications, magazines, professional publications (exhibition), and other information. Of course, personal enjoyment and feelings and feelings of nature, but also offers you a professional in this theme continued into the driving force. Secret of success lies in making nature photographs, clear reproduction of the subject and its living environment, but at the same time to make creative works, so that non-specialists can appreciate.
Shooting methods and organizational
Involved in this field, in addition to master photography, you also need to have (like the biologist, ornithologist or zoologist owned) special expertise. This is very useful. In the year, you must know where and when to find you the best selection of eco-shooting time and place, especially their (animals and birds, etc.) regular water and feeding habits of control will help You grabbed it moving at the moment.
Taken place on the practice to arrange such as butterfly farms, plant protection area or type of scientific investigation Park paddock, where the habitat for many varieties of animals and their natural living environment and reasonable. Most zoo animals are taken to the place, but where the animal is usually not satisfactory living environment, and the “cage objects” in the wilderness habitat of the performance and behavior of animals in general are very different.
When shooting animals and birds you need to have good ability to find the location or expert assistance. In addition to good at sneaking close to the subject, full of observation and great patience, but you must be a valid point of view to arrange the entire scene. This means that sometimes you have to disguise and nature, like hiding in the shelter, waiting and shooting your target the more appropriate. Advanced countries such as the U.S., the parts of protected areas in the planning, design house will be camouflaged in the square, the photographer can only apply to the park rangers. Important in China, panda habitat – Wolong Nature Reserve has a similar setup. Another purpose of this setting is to ensure that photographers will not break into the open area of ??valuable non-destructive.
Of course, not every eco-park has such a setting, so you need some time to build it up and materials used mainly obtained from the environment to the nearest large banana leaves, bamboo and tree branches. Appropriate to prevent annoying insects attack is necessary, many beginners a little mosquito habits, but a few miles from the animals can smell the taste of the nose. Wear long-sleeved clothes and a little spray can of insect repellent. In addition, when you go best to bring disguised account of a person, who do not stay long, got up and left the game allows you to create the illusion of a potential enemy has left.
When shooting flowers and plants, to select the perfect natural environment samples, highlighting the shape, structure and color. If it is scientific purposes, the size used to display the subject’s scale revenue picture is helpful, when you can compose it arranged in the side of the frame. If necessary, it may eventually be cut. Important scientific record photo shoot to follow two rules: one is to remember to export detailed diary, including: the subject name, location and time; the other one is damaged or not taken seriously disrupt your plants or animals.
Equipment and technology
Professional nature photographers in the field, the traditional 135 camera or the best choice. Not only because you have the opportunity to choose a variety of lenses, the traditional camera’s ability to damp vibration ruggedness, far more than digital cameras. Although digital cameras has developed, more and more varieties of high-powered zoom, which is shooting wildlife, often using long focal length lens is particularly helpful. Especially on zoom / price ratio, digital lot cheaper than the traditional. But one thing, digital is not as traditional, is the battery. Previously mentioned, in camouflage shooting Account of ecological landscape, they often stay for ten hours. If you do not want to take a roaring sound of the generator to charge your digital camera, and scare all the local animals, then the traditional camera is the only choice.
But digital cameras can help beginners to practice eco-photography skills, especially in its macro capabilities capture the static on the eco-flower or insect, or have some help. At the same time, a lightweight and stable tripod is essential. If your camera or hand-held light meter to measure the point (SPOT) light reading, then when you shoot birds and animals moving at any time change the background and the value of such metering would be particularly useful. In this case, the automatic camera can also have a good play.
Add that the shooting insects, flowers and other creatures, an external ring flash for close-up shot of light is very helpful, you can take a small aperture to improve depth of field freezes the action (when the outdoor shooting flowers, often interfere with the breeze ). Part of a more professional nature photographers, such as shooting nocturnal animal ecology, bats back to their nest or cave ecology, you can not use strong flash for fill light or searchlight. At this time, there are two ways to solve the First Night activities in the vicinity of the installation of bio-electronic detection system, if necessary, can also be installed, including the flash. Then, you can camouflage tent from a distance with binoculars to observe animals whereabouts of the place, and then activated with radio or infrared camera. Now more advanced approach, it is directly using infrared or starlight night vision devices to shoot, and then to carry out this work, infrared flash or searchlight is necessary, and to use infrared film.
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