Tips Photography
Rainforest photography, like all good nature photography is more about his sensitivity to the nature of costly equipment. Of course, you need a decent camera, and you should know how to use it. But the quality of your picture does not depend on the price tag on the camera. While you have a tripod and a camera that lets you set the aperture and shutter speed, you're ready to go.
I earn my living from nature photography, including large numbers Photo of the jungle, and have never trusted the most modern equipment for my work. Great picture of the forest is simply to find an eye-object capture, good light, and a creative eye for composition.
Note: The following tips are for photos of scenes from the jungle, not for close-up photos of leaves, mushrooms, etc.
Rainforest Photography Tip # 1: Choose a topic. As they say in the classics, "It's a jungle out there." In the jungle, you are faced with foliage, branches, roots, rocks, vines … in your face and all around. A photo of the jungle very well require a structure to make sense of visual clutter that. Find something that is immediately appealing – a large tree overlooking the trees around a root system that leads the eye, a waterfall or stream, in short, something you can build around a composition.
Rainforest Photography Tip # 2: Use the best natural light. The mistake almost everyone makes at first is taking photos of their rainforest on a bright sunny day when they are in the mood for a walk. Wrong! In full sun, the jungle becomes a patchwork of light and shadow that is impossible to expose correctly. What you need is a cloudy day, when light is much more. Time Misty adds even more atmosphere to the forest, and can add a mysterious character his jungle photo.
Do not use the flash. The flash illuminates the scene with flat light, white, eliminating the soft play of natural light and shadow that gives the jungle character. Always use natural light.
Rainforest Photography Tip # 3: Make a tripod. Taking the photo of the forest under a canopy of trees large, on a cloudy day (see tip of the forest picture # 2), means that the light level is very low. You might shoot at shutter speeds slow as one or two seconds. You always have your tripod, and it is best to avoid windy days so that the scene was as still as possible.
Rainforest Photography Tip # 4: Use a wide angle (or a zoom lens, zoom back to its widest angle). The wide-angle lens has several advantages for photography of the rainforest. First, it exaggerates the sense of perspective in a photo, creating a deep sense of three dimensions. Photo Viewers will feel as they are looking not only into a forest, but in it. Second, the wide-angle lens has a natural depth of field width. With so much detail around you, it is important you can keep both the foreground and background in focus.
Rainforest Photography Tip # 5: Stay on the road. There are some practical reasons to stay in the way when walking. It minimizes the possibility of lost, injured, or fined for some excess informal park rangers. The people who run the national parks are not stupid. They know what they want to see, and the design of its tracks accordingly. Meet the path is not deprived of any opportunity to take photos.
In terms of rainforest photography, you can create some distance between you and the foliage around you. It is much easier to photograph a tree, when he has the branch of another tree on his face. By staying on the road, you can get a clear view of his subject, without interference. You can even use the route as part of the composition picture of rainforest. It is an excellent way of inviting the viewer to join you in your walk in the forest.
So you have my five tips from the jungle of photography. Notice that focus on light and creativity, no fancy techniques or equipment. You can make big improvements in the whole nature photography this way, regardless what type of camera you have.
Andrew Goodall’s ebooks “Photography in Plain English” and Every Picture Tells A Story” have helped thousands of new photographers learn the art and skills of nature photography. See Andrew’s rainforest photos and ebooks at http://www.naturesimage.com.au
Kris Krug – Photography Tips
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