Making Your Shots Unique
Thanks to digital photography, there are more and more people taking pictures than ever before. What this means is that there are also more and more photos of the same subjects. So how do you make your photographs stand out?
One thing I love to do is photograph animals in their environment using a wide angle lens. By including some habitat in your pictures, you can show more about the subject, and using a wide angle lens is a great technique to add sense of scale and a really neat perspective to your final image. In order to make your subject predominant in the frame when using a wide angle lens, you must get pretty close, so this technique is best for animals that are well accustomed to people or have not yet developed fear of humans.
This photograph of a black skimmer was taken using a wide angle zoom lens set at 40mm. By using a wider lens and photographing the bird as it approached, I was able to include the colony of skimmers nesting on the beach within the frame. Without including the environment and skimmers, this image might have been boring. Here you can also see how a wide angle lens adds scale to the objects in the image; notice how much smaller the birds in the background look when compared to the flying skimmer.
Techs: Canon 1D Mark II N, 17-40mm f/4L, 1/2000s, f/9, ISO 800. To order this print, purchase stock rights, or view other photos I have for sale, please visit my website at www.karipost.com.
on December 13, 2007 at 10:55 pm
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This ROCKS, kari! =-o
wow! Excellent pose of the flying bird, composition, and DOF to still show some of the background birds. The misty feel adds a lot and the uncluttered sky keeps the focus on the subjects!
This is definitely one of my favorites of yours!
-Vito