How To Make Taking Wildlife Photos Easy

Everyone loves photographs of wild animals and taking those photos can be as much fun, and for many, more fun, than having the photos. Getting great wildlife photos requires you to know where and when those animals will appear.

Some of the most-productive places to get the best photography of animals are at state parks and wildlife sanctuaries, where the animals aren’t concerned about humans. However, if you go to a wildlife sanctuary, you still won’t get those great pictures you want if you don’t know where and when animals are most likely to show up.

For instance, when a lady took her children to a picnic area at a wildlife sanctuary, she noticed that after lunch wild turkeys began coming into the picnic area to eat some of the food dropped and left behind by the picnickers. So the next day, she used her Alpen binoculars to see where the turkeys were entering the picnic area. Then she took a stand close to one of the picnic spots and observed the turkeys as they came into the picnic ground. Using a telephoto lens, she was able to get great pictures of wild turkeys in an almost-natural setting.

Many wildlife sanctuaries have excellent road systems running through them that enable visitors to observe the animals. Visitors then can leave their vehicles and take pictures of the animals. However, to maximize your time and get the best photos possible, carry your binoculars and spotting scopes with you.

Using binoculars such as Alpen binoculars, you often can spot animals in fields, along the edge of wood lines and pastures, near creeks and at other open places. You also can determine where the animals are eating and on what they’re feeding. If you mount an Alpen spotting scope on the window mount of your vehicle, you can use the spotting scope to determine the size and the quality of the Wild animal. To photograph the animal, take your camera and get as close as possible for magazine-quality photographs. Professional photographers all over the country use this strategy to take great pictures.

By using the binoculars and the spotting scope, you can save both boot leather and energy because you’ll be able to clearly and accurately identify the animals before you decide to leave your vehicle and photograph them. For instance, if you see a deer out in a field, and you want to photograph it, but you can’t tell if the deer has antlers or not, you have one of two choices. You can make the hike to get close enough to the deer to check out the antlers and hope you don’t spook it. Or, you can use your Alpen spotting scope to determine if the deer is a doe or a buck and the size of the deer’s antlers. If you decide to photograph this animal, you can use your spotting scope or binoculars to determine the best route to take to get close enough to the animal to shoot the pictures without spooking it.

A wildlife photographer without quality binoculars and a spotting scope is much like an inexperienced person at a dart contest. It’s very unlikely they will hit the bull’s-eye and hitting the target may be a challenge also. For the wildlife photographer, his/her optics are their eyes in the wilderness.

With binoculars and spotting scopes, you will see animals more clearly at greater distances, determine the size and the quality of the animal and pick a better route to reach than you can with your natural eye. If you want to shoot great wildlife photography, you’ll get better pictures, locate better animals for photographs and walk shorter distances, if you use binoculars and spotting scopes than you will if you’ll use your own eyesight and boot leather.

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