How do novices take good photos of birds and wild animals?

First, the medium telephoto lens is an essential weapon.

When shooting birds or wild animals, because they are more afraid of sound or people's approach, medium-long focus is essential. Usually, it is necessary to use a lens of more than 200mm, which is conducive to long-distance shooting, will not make animals wary, and can shoot more natural pictures. Another advantage of using the medium telephoto lens is that you can easily take the desired picture in some inaccessible places, such as birds in the sea or lake.

Take a picture of a bird flying on the water with a telephoto lens.

Second, use rangefinder to increase the focal length.

When shooting birds or wild animals in the distance, if the focal length of the lens is not long enough, it will inevitably appear insufficient. At this time, you only need to prepare a range finder to solve the problem. Common rangefinders include 1.4 times amplification and 2 times amplification. After use, the focal length can be increased by 40% or 100%, which can be used to track birds at a longer distance.

The use of rangefinder makes it easier for photographers to capture wonderful photos. )

Third, using a tripod helps to shoot for a long time.

When shooting wild animals, it is a laborious thing to shoot with "long guns and cannons", and it is also a protracted war. It is not easy to photograph wild animals or birds. If you want to capture more vivid scenes, more interesting perspectives, or for a certain purpose, you have to wait and struggle for a long time.

(Capturing the feeding picture of the mother bird, using a tripod is not only conducive to long-term shooting, but also ensures the quality of the picture)

Fourth, shoot wild animals at a safe shutter speed.

When shooting wild animals, you need to use a safe shutter speed to get a clear picture.

Safety shutter: the lowest shutter speed that people can ensure a clear picture when shooting by hand. This shutter speed should not be lower than the reciprocal of the equivalent focal length. For example, the current focal length is 300mm, and the shutter speed during shooting should not be lower than 1/320s.

Therefore, if you can't reach the safe shutter speed when capturing animals in the wild, you can try to make the shutter speed above the safe value by improving the sensitivity and increasing the exposure compensation, so as to get a clearer picture.

By using the safety shutter to capture moving animals, you can get clear pictures.

Fifth, the high sensitivity setting ensures a high-speed shutter.

High-speed shutter is one of the most commonly used and important camera setting skills when shooting animals and birds.

Shooting animals and birds with high-speed shutter can capture their frequent and rare instantaneous dynamics faster and better.

Therefore, it is particularly important to correctly master how to make the shutter faster. In the process of shooting, if the shutter speed cannot be improved by using a large aperture due to the limitation of shooting conditions and the shutter speed is not ideal, the sensitivity can be improved while keeping the aperture unchanged to obtain a higher shutter speed.

(In the case of insufficient light, properly increasing the sensitivity can make the shutter speed faster. )

(If you want to get a faster shutter speed, you can increase the sensitivity appropriately. )

Sixth, high-speed continuous shooting captures wonderful moments.

High-speed continuous shooting is essential when shooting wonderful pictures such as fighting between animals and catching prey. High-speed continuous shooting can record more and faster the wonderful moments of animals during their activities.

If you want to shoot a wonderful picture when two birds are fighting with each other, you need to use the high-speed continuous shooting function, which can effectively improve the success rate of shooting an ideal picture. )

Seven, continuous autofocus should focus accurately.

When shooting wild animals or birds, because of their uncertain whereabouts, it is very likely that the photographed animals are out of the shooting range during the process of focusing and shooting with a half shutter. This constant rapid movement has brought great difficulties to photographers.

Birds jumping out of the water move very fast, so continuous autofocus is needed to capture a clear picture more accurately.

Eight, use the central focus to get more accurate focusing results.

When shooting moving objects, in order to ensure the focus as quickly and successfully as possible, it is suggested to use central focus to focus. Central focusing is the highest focusing accuracy among multiple focusing points of SLR cameras, and it is most suitable for shooting wild animals and birds.

(The central government focuses on shooting two swans that are playing, and the picture is warm and natural. )