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Top Ten Wildlife Photography Tips

Top Ten Wildlife Photography Tips

Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by Paul Burwell.

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Creating a tremendous wildlife photograph is an extremely rewarding pursuit. However, developing the skills and techniques necessary to create captivating wildlife images is more difficult than it might appear on the surface. Composition, lighting, equipment, natural history, and patience are just some of the areas…

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Learning wildlife photography – Seeing with both eyes

Learning wildlife photography – Seeing with both eyes

Posted on 02. Mar, 2009 by Paul Burwell.

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Learning wildlife photography – Seeing with both eyes – One of the great disappointments in wildlife photography comes about when we miss, or fail to anticipate some behaviour or action. And instead of ending up with a great behaviour image, we’re left with an image of half an animal or, worse yet, an empty frame. What can you do to help ready yourself for the action?

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Learning wildlife photography – Making sharper images – Part 2

Learning wildlife photography – Making sharper images – Part 2

Posted on 05. Jan, 2009 by Paul Burwell.

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Making sharper images – Part 2 – In the last post I discussed some of the finer points of using your camera’s auto focusing features to help compose an image and get what’s important (the eyes!) in focus. Let’s look at some additional factors that go into making sharp images.

Lenses – The higher quality the lens, the better images it can produce. And unfortunately…

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Learning wildlife photography – Making sharper images – Part 1

Learning wildlife photography – Making sharper images – Part 1

Posted on 02. Jan, 2009 by Paul Burwell.

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Making sharper images – Part 1 – A lot of wildlife photography is dependant on the use of telephoto,telephoto-zooms and super telephoto lenses to make reasonable images of small subjects or larger animals off in the distance. When you use a telephoto lens, you need a new set of techniques in order to ensure that you end up with sharp images. Nothing is more frustrating than…

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