Animal shooting skills of SLR camera

SLR camera animal shooting skills shooting conditions

Use lens: EF 70-200mm f/4L is USM.

Shooting mode: program automatic exposure (F4.5, 1/200 seconds)

White balance: daylight

Sensitivity: ISO 200

Use a light telephoto lens and high ISO sensitivity to shoot moving animals.

When shooting animals that are agile and not controlled by the photographer's will, the photographer is required to react as quickly as shooting sports. Also, the closer animals are to the wild, the more instinctively they keep a certain distance from humans. It is difficult to get close to them, so telephoto lenses are needed in many occasions. Secondly, photographers often need to move with animals, so the photographic equipment they carry should be as light as possible. In this kind of shooting, it is often easier to take good photos by choosing a lens with a small aperture but easy to carry than by choosing a lens with a bright large aperture.

The direction of light is also important to show the charm of animals. Especially when shooting fluffy animals, the secret of showing their charm is to shoot the texture of hair. At this time, it is very effective to use the backlight or semi-backlight of the sun. Photographers should observe the surrounding situation and quickly decide the shooting position to start shooting. Generally speaking, it is no problem to determine exposure parameters by evaluation photometry. However, in the case of strong backlight, partial metering or spot metering with small metering range can be used for metering.

The shooting mode can be P (Program Auto Exposure) mode, and the shooting time is preferred. If the ISO sensitivity is set to automatic, you can cope with the sharp change of light freely. When shooting outdoors during the day, even when shooting with high ISO sensitivity, the noise will not be as obvious as when shooting at night. Therefore, we should always pay attention to the change of shutter speed when shooting to prevent possible hand jitter or subject jitter.

Key points of animal shooting skills of SLR camera 1: Flexible application of anti-shake function

If a telephoto zoom lens IS used, it is best to choose an IS image stabilizer with hand shake compensation mechanism. Of course, a high-speed shutter can also prevent hand shake, but if the lens has an optical anti-shake mechanism, the picture in the viewfinder will be more stable, which is very beneficial to telephoto.

Point 2: Choose the appropriate autofocus mode according to the situation.

In the face of those animals that are always moving, the artificial intelligence servo autofocus mode should be adopted, while for those animals that are sometimes still, the artificial intelligence autofocus mode should be adopted. Of course, artificial intelligence servo autofocus can also be carried out in artificial intelligence autofocus mode, but it takes some time to start automatic tracking of the subject, so what mode to use needs to be selected according to the situation.

Point 3: Select the autofocus point to focus the animal's eyes.

Instead of letting the camera automatically select the focus, it manually selects the focus to focus on the animal's eyes. Photographers should choose the autofocus point as close as possible to the animal's eyes and be ready to capture the animal's instantaneous movements at any time.

Point 4: Set the driving mode to continuous shooting.

In order to better grasp the movements of animals, the driving mode is continuous shooting. Unlike some large animals, which move very slowly, some small animals move very fast and it is difficult to catch them with one shot.

Tip: Shooting skills in the zoo.

Different from shooting wild animals, the more troublesome thing when shooting in the zoo is the barbed wire in the cage. If the grid is dense, it will inevitably affect the shooting. However, if the aperture of the lens is slightly smaller than the aperture of the lens, the center of the lens can be aligned with the aperture, and the lens can be close to the barbed wire, so that the barbed wire will be blurred and less eye-catching. Also, the longer the focal length of the lens when shooting, the less obvious the barbed wire is. This is a shooting technique that uses blur effect. If we can boldly use foreground blurring and blur the barbed wire in front of us, we can turn the barbed wire into invisibility. It should be noted that the lens is easy to touch the barbed wire. Photographers should be careful and add a protective filter in front of the lens to prevent the lens from being scratched.