Wild animals will do what they want to hence as a photographer you need to work around them to take the best shots. When we are shooting the wildlife we can’t ask them to look here, or move to where the light is better. You have to be there and be ready to take the most interesting shots, wait and wait is all you can do to get those perfect shots.

1. Saxen Van Coller­ Play Safe
In The Wild
The game of wildlife requires a lot of
patience. Whether you are trying to
capture a herd of elephants or birds
in the backyard you need to be
careful. Wild animals will do what
they want to hence as a
photographer you need to work
around them to take the best shots.
When we are shooting the wildlife
we can’t ask them to look here, or
move to where the light is better.
You have to be there and be ready
to take the most interesting shots,
wait and wait is all you can do to
get those perfect shots. Many feel it
takes a lot of time, the longer you
spend time with an animal or group
of animals the better you get to
know about them and their habitat.

2. When you are put outdoors with the
animals you get to see more of their
personalities. You may get to the point
where you can anticipate what they
might do at a particular time of day or in
a certain situation. You will be able to
know which cubs are more playful or in
which spot a male likes to lay up, this
will help you get your images better.

3. And, as is true of all kinds of
photography, the more time you
spend with your subjects, the more
likely your images will be
expressive and revealing. The
better you know them the better it
will show in your photography.
Every photographer has his own style
and way states Saxen Van Coller.
There are no fixed rules or ways
and no perfect recipe, but there are
some things that can substantially
improve your end results. Here are
a few points that I would like to
share with you from my recent
trips to a national reserve in Africa.

4. How You Can Work Best In The Wild

Vary your lens choice to
make the most. Many feel
that use of long lens will
possibly get the best
images. While in some
cases it might work, but
there are situations where
you need a wider lens.
While a nice headshot is
perfect, but what brings
the niche is when the
animal is captured with its
native environment.

5. 
Use of a monopod or a
tripod: whenever
possible use a tripod or a
monopod. This will help
to stabilize the camera
and lens and you will
achieve sharper images.
This works best in low
light conditions, where
your shutter speed is
slow.

6. 
Get lower and more into the animal’s
environment by lowering yourself and
immersing completely for a more
interesting composition. Saxen Van Coller
says she has spent most of her time in
Africa siting or lying down to capture
images from their point of view. But while
you are doing this, make sure you maintain
a proper distance.

7. 
Always focus on the animal eye it is a
rule, as the animal’s eye should always be
the sharpest point when we take any good
image. The more focus you have on the eye
the better is your capture as when looked
close you can see yourself if you look close.

8. 
Respect the animal’s
space going closer to
your subject gives the
best results and will
undoubtedly improve
your composition. But
when we are talking
about the wild never put
yourself in danger just to
get a picture and disturb
their natural habitat as
you never know forcing
them can create serious
problems.

9. No matter how much you enjoy being in
the wild and taking photographs a little
care is needed. In the end what is
important is that we need to maintain a
safe distance from the untamed to
capture the best shots.

10. No matter how much you enjoy being in
the wild and taking photographs a little
care is needed. In the end what is
important is that we need to maintain a
safe distance from the untamed to
capture the best shots.