Wildlife Photography

Because of wanting to create work that will inform the public about the problems surrounding wildlife conservation, I have decided to look at how other artists, photographers and artists alike capture wildlife and convey their beauty.

Earlier on this week, I joined National Geographic's Photographers community and was looking into tiger conservation. I was very interested in what photographers had to go to in order to capture wildlife without disturbing them. I then came across these videos :

These videos provided me great insight in what had to be taken in account in order for a photographer to take pictures of wildlife. These videos also made me realise that apart from the technical difficulties and rough terrain, there were a lot of human conflict surrounding these tigers as well.

In addition to these videos, I also wanted to see what other problems also occur when taking pictures of another animal and I found this :

This was a talk by Photographer Paul Nicklen on how he had to endure a month of not being able to capture the spirit bear and how everything happened on the last week or so of his visit. I also found his talk to be very inspiring as it showed a great deal of patience and endurance he had and how optimistic he was. Particularly when he talked about how a photographer should use 20% just capturing the animal and 80% trying to find interesting angles and visually interesting compositions. Personally, I was able to relate to Nicklen as I, as well, had taken multiple sets of photographs during my time at the safari. I took multiple sets of photographs where a series set would include more close up shots for example the eyes, paw or pattern. Whereas other sets would cover the more social aspects of the tiger i.e their behaviour, how they interact in the wild, how the move etc.

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