How to Shoot Wildlife Photography

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni, and I'm going to be talking about wildlife photography. Wildlife photography is a great way to produce beautiful images of animals and nature. And one of the most important things about this type of photography that you have to understand is that you really need to be incredibly skilled at blending in to nature. And this could work in a couple of different ways. One, you need to camouflage yourself. You might even need to protect yourself from the scent. I mean animals have an amazing scent of smell, and they could, sense of smell, and they can, they could smell humans as a survival skill. So that's one way you want to think about how do I get close to these, to these animals. The other is that you're going to need a very very long lens. Very close up lens. A minimum, three hundred millimeter lens for photographing animals in nature. The other thing that you might to think about is how again, you can create a niche for yourself. Maybe you only want to photograph in a certain part of the country. Or a certain animal that you can really understand so to speak and make wonderful images of. Some people I know do great images of wild, of birds. They're just constantly reading up on birds. And essentially they go out with a telephoto lens and spend a morning photographing birds. It's extremely interesting photography and in a way it could be extremely lucrative. So that's how I would go about becoming a wildlife photographer."