Great wildlife photography is a lifetime pursuit. It can only be achieved with hours of scouting and traveling and waiting for better business opportunity. Saxen Van Coller a professional wildlife photographer believes that it is an art that requires much more patience as compared to other forms of photography. It is a form where you can spend an entire day in the hot sun without even getting a single best shot. While there may be a day out in the wild where you have just reached and within just an hour's time you get the best shot.
This is one reality that a photographer has to accept and if you have the zeal then it's time to dig deeper in the details. Today we will talk about telephoto lens and fast shutter speed. These are the two most important criteria that matter the most in wildlife photography. You need to have a very good lens and enough light to get a very fast shutter speed.
When we talk about lens, it is supposed to be a telephoto lens that is somewhere between 200mm to 500mm. If you have a point and shoot camera you can also take the best shots, but when you are working at the professional level its necessary to work on the lens. Well, when you are out in the wild it is important to use the fastest shutter speed that your camera or the surrounding light will allow. When we are taking pictures of human things are easier, but with animals we cannot work with ease as they are fast, quick and are completely different.
Let’s take an example of a hummingbird and how fast it beats its wings to hover. With such fast speed when you capture it the wings it will probably come blurred. So in this case to really capture the hummingbird you will need to increase the shutter speed past 1/1500s and you will get the perfect results.
Saxen Van Coller suggests that another reason you will want to increase the shutter speed is when you use a telephoto lens at long distances and you will need a long focal length like 500mm. When you shoot at such horizon, things move differently and at some point you may experience that your camera may shake, making it all the more tough to get those perfect shots.
So the last point is to try to get the fastest shutter speed. Make an effort to go out during the brighter time of the day to capture the best wildlife photographs.
This is one reality that a photographer has to accept and if you have the zeal then it's time to dig deeper in the details. Today we will talk about telephoto lens and fast shutter speed. These are the two most important criteria that matter the most in wildlife photography. You need to have a very good lens and enough light to get a very fast shutter speed.
When we talk about lens, it is supposed to be a telephoto lens that is somewhere between 200mm to 500mm. If you have a point and shoot camera you can also take the best shots, but when you are working at the professional level its necessary to work on the lens. Well, when you are out in the wild it is important to use the fastest shutter speed that your camera or the surrounding light will allow. When we are taking pictures of human things are easier, but with animals we cannot work with ease as they are fast, quick and are completely different.
Let’s take an example of a hummingbird and how fast it beats its wings to hover. With such fast speed when you capture it the wings it will probably come blurred. So in this case to really capture the hummingbird you will need to increase the shutter speed past 1/1500s and you will get the perfect results.
Saxen Van Coller suggests that another reason you will want to increase the shutter speed is when you use a telephoto lens at long distances and you will need a long focal length like 500mm. When you shoot at such horizon, things move differently and at some point you may experience that your camera may shake, making it all the more tough to get those perfect shots.
So the last point is to try to get the fastest shutter speed. Make an effort to go out during the brighter time of the day to capture the best wildlife photographs.
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