10 Cool Tips How to Photograph Wild Animals

The problem with really good advice for animal photography is that your hardly get it.

At least not for free. Wannabe professional photographers don’t like to tell their tricks and creative ideas how to take the best picture in nature. So, their articles which you can find online usually end with something that sounds like a commercial for the camera and lens industry.

You hardly find real practical and helpful tips or tricks. You can easily discover the real pros among all photographers as they love to talk about their job and to discuss.

But be carful to book a photo travel with a “pro”. I experienced this being a waste of money. The travel experience is great, but much cheaper if you book it yourself and discover the places on your own with your camera. That’s the best way to learn because you figure out a lot of tricks by doing.What the human brain learns by doing it will never forget.

Real professional photographers are very relaxed and sovereign, discuss a little, without telling everything. Actually they have one favorite camera which they use whenever possible and love to talk about the light. In other words, if you are interested in shooting outdoors and looking for tips and tricks or where and how to start you will have to figure out most things on your own – just like I did.

Of course I studied several books about professional photography, but I must say I learned more by doing and by accident. Partly my accidents have been articles in photography magazines where I found unexpected informations. More often I learned from watching great animal pictures in magazines like ‘National Geographic’ or watching documentaries.You must know these photos are of course pimped by any image editing program, but you can learn a lot about the light, picture composition, the point of view and the angle from where to shoot best. When I did not know how to reach this or that effect I found in a picture with my own camera I simply read the camera instructions again.

It is really that simple: the more you watch professional wild life photos and practice your own animal photography the better your animal pictures will become. If you follow this advice you will learn fast and get better results soon. If you fear to forget which shutter speed, aperture and lens you used or where you found that wonderful tree that you would like to photograph in a series of all seasons then simply take a small notebook with you.All creative people always have such a notebook in their pocket and write down new ideas, notes, inspiring quotes, technical informations addresses and contacts. So, you see this is nothing odd-looking, but very usual for creative people.

Now, I will give you here 10 more tips how to behave between wild animals, how you could prepare and how to take the best pictures. Enjoy!