The ONLY wildlife photo tip you need
As I've started posting a video every week this year there are times where I do everything as right as I can, and nothing happens, or the animals don't cooperate or a storm rolls in etc. etc. That led to this video. I had a great day in nature, I actually had 3 great mornings in a row looking for a shorebird photo or a photo of something hunting shorebirds....but no photo materialized and yet I had great time and came away with nice footage. That brings me to my point. The secret to getting a great wild life photo. The only one that actually counts. Every camera rule can be broken. For every video you watch telling you to use this setting there is one that says to not use that setting. I promise you that the only tip that won't ever be countered by opposite advice is the one at the end of this video. You have to get out there, and you have to love it win lose or draw. When the only possible constant is you being out there then you have to maintain that constant. Everything else is a shot in the dark. Will the wildlife show, will it look at me, will the background be ok, will the light be right, will a guy on a dirtbike without a muffler show up just as I am getting ready to press the shutter....LOL. Every variable in this hobby or career (whatever the case may be) is subject to change, and the ONLY one you can control is that you are spending as much time at it as possible. I used to be an avid fisherman. I was always posting photos of giant bass, and my friends would always ask me, "How do you catch so many big ones?" I would chuckle and just explain that I didn't share the photos of the 10,000 small ones. I didn't only catch large bass. My ratio of large fish caught to small fish caught was the same as everyone's. I wasn't a PRO fisherman on a Bass Master tour. I just fished everyday and my friends maybe fished a few times a year. That was the only difference. It's the same thing here, and of course the more you do something you do get better at it, but it is all fractions. I get a fractional more good photos because of practice, but the photos that I feel are really really good are attributed to just one thing in the long run. Persistence.
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