Wildlife Photography
Professional photographer Heather Angel will teach you how to take photos of animals and birds in the wild.
This course is ideal for anyone who loves animals. Whether you want to photograph them in your back garden or local countryside, a Zoo, Wildlife Park or Nature Reserve or maybe you are planning that once in a life time holiday. This course will give you professional insights on taking photos of wildlife.
Photographing the natural world can be both frustrating and immensely rewarding. Becoming an observant field naturalist will ensure you gain a closer approach to wildlife before they take evasive action.
Whether in your own garden or in more remote locations, learn how to make the most of available light for taking wildlife portraits. Heather will also cover how to meter for high key and low key subjects, and how and when to use flash and how useful fill-flash can be for animals of any size. Learn when and how to get dramatic action shots of animal behaviour using fast shutter speeds and slow ones by panning the camera. Invest time working with baby animals, because although a challenge, it will be very rewarding.
Learn how to use a house as a hide and about hide etiquette in public hides. Tips and hints for getting in close to minibeasts and also for photographing life in aquaria are included - but for the specifics of macro photography join my Macro photography course.
Having found your target species, thought needs to go into how best to compose the shot and to select the most appropriate shutter speed and aperture. Discover how to get dramatic silhouettes at dusk and dawn and how to plan a photo story.
Finally, learn how to edit images and to retrieve them at a later date.
You'll learn:
- how to approach wild animals in their natural environment whether at home or abroad
- camera settings to achieve correctly exposed images
- photography skills to create eye-catching portraits and arresting action shots – from beetles to large mammals
- taking action shots and using hides
Requirements:
- Camera with a zoom lens so can stand back to take wildlife. A DSLR is not essential, but it will be easier for action shots because the focusing is faster.
- For macro shots
- Some means of getting in close – either with a macro setting on a zoom lens or a true macro lens for a DSLR camera.
- A flash - either in-camera or a separate flash
- Camera support - a tripod or monopod is not essential but could be useful if need to set up the camera and wait for wildlife to arrive/ behave.
This course is suitable for photographers wanting to learn to take photographs of nature and wildlife, through to professionals who want to develop their wildlife photography skills with Heather Angel.
Time to complete this wildlife photography course:
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 13 hours 45 minutes to complete including:
- Video lessons: 1 hour 45 minutes in total
- Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
- Assignment: at least 2 hours per lesson
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
- tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson
The course includes:
- On-demand video lessons - presented by Heather Angel
- lifetime access to the video, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical (optional) wildlife or nature photography assignments
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom chat online to students from around the world
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Heather on your photos.
Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.