You must know the skills of field photography.

You need to know the skills of outdoor photography. With adequate preparation, patience and correct equipment, you can also take the best pictures of animals!

Equipment list: 100mm-400mm telephoto zoom lens, monopod, heavy tripod, camouflage lens and camera cover, portable hidden tent, bean bag, camouflage coat, including coat, trousers, hat and photographic backpack.

1. Armed to the teeth

If you want to shoot animals or get close to the wild, you should wear camouflage clothes first, which is unlikely to disturb animals. In addition, prepare a camera bag that matches the surrounding environment and put a camouflage cover on your lens and digital SLR camera. Remember to turn off the camera's focus buzzer so as not to disturb your subject.

Step 2 highlight the theme

Setting the digital SLR camera to aperture priority mode and choosing a larger aperture (between f/4 and f/5.6) to blur the background can make the subject in the photo separate from the surrounding environment? Jump? Come out. In this mode, the SLR camera will help you choose the appropriate shutter speed, but it should be noted that the change of weather and light level may make the shutter speed change greatly during the photographing process. As shown above, using telephoto lens allows you to shoot wild animals from a distance without disturbing them. This can help you capture the more natural state of animals and create more wonderful photos.

3. Enlarge and fill the picture.

? To take the best wildlife photos, you need a high-quality telephoto zoom lens with a focal length of 100mm to 400 mm, which is very suitable for photographing animals. They allow you to shoot from a long distance, and no matter where the subject goes, you can always get the best presentation effect that fills the whole picture.

4. Skills of taking clear photos

? Taking pictures with a telephoto lens, the key point is to ensure that the shutter speed is not too slow. In order to get a clear image when shooting with a hand-held camera, it is necessary to ensure that the shutter speed cannot be lower than the reciprocal of the focal length of the lens. For example, when shooting with a focal length of 300mm, the shutter speed should be above 1/300 seconds. If necessary, the ISO value can be appropriately increased (see the next paragraph). If you use a lens with anti-shake function, you can appropriately relax the restrictions on the minimum shutter speed in the above hand-held shooting rules.

5. Higher shutter speed

For wildlife photography, it is much more important to capture animal movements with higher shutter speed than to keep low sensitivity. If the image of the photo is clear enough, then some noise is nothing at all, and you don't have to be afraid to adjust the sensitivity to ISO800 or even higher, as long as you can ensure that your shutter speed is fast enough and the picture is clear enough? This is the job of a professional animal photographer.

Be patient

? Observe the behavior of animals, find out where they like to move, and find out where they eat, rest and play. Patience is the key to success, and it is also the only way for wildlife photography to take good photos. Pay more patience and wait quietly, and a wonderful animal photo will bring you absolute value return.

Expert tips

You don't have to go to Africa to take exciting photos of wild animals yourself. In the zoo, you can also photograph rare birds and animals with different customs. All you have to do is try not to let the photos show traces of artificial captivity.