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A photographic hunting trip in the jungle, how to hunt animals and birds. . . with the camera?


Photography in the jungle requires skill, monitoring the movements of wild animals, understanding their sudden and hidden behavior, and comprehensive knowledge of dealing with the camera.

Skillful field production becomes useless if you make a mistake in one of the movements involved in preparing the camera for work, and here photographic experience alone is not enough to put you in the best position to take a picture of a cautious animal, for example. Jungle photography at its professional best looks very technical and time consuming. but The main first step is to gain confidence during the filming process. It is of great importance to choose the appropriate way to get to the animals easily, and you can familiarize yourself with wild animals in the zoo, for example. However, these animals rarely behave normally in captivity, and we will not be able to learn much about them while they are behind bars .

And the perfect place to start photographing is in the vast wild and fenced areas that the governments of some countries allocate as a reserve for wild animals that live in them freely and reassuredly, and the quality of access to such animals varies around the world. Countries with large areas that have been left primitive and turned into animal sanctuaries can save you a lot To discover the life of the jungle and its secrets, and the United States of America is a prominent example of that, so you are invited to search for well-organized animal reserves, and the animals have been introduced to them with knowledge. It balances the needs of jungle life and the interests of tourists. The Eagle Glades region of the US state of Florida, for example, is characterized by passages Natural flat, each of which appears in the form of a wooden walkway over the swamps. And the animals are so accustomed to these paths that a large number of their species can be seen from up close and during an emergency walk, and in such perfect opportunities, you do not have to worry about just taking any shot on the film, and you can use your subject photographically in the best way. If it is possible to approach the animal in a distinctive way, then you must go through experiments by adjusting your location from it to obtain more effective contents and light effects. As for the quick interactions with the subject, you will eventually come with practice for that, and instead of risking making early mistakes, deal with what you are about. Calmly and slowly, spend some time checking the animal, observing its behavior. Learn its intentions and try to capture the most interesting of its behavior. An animal engaged in a distinctive work, with its kind and species, makes a photograph in which there is more excitement than any other photograph of it while it is in a still and rigid position. You will also explore the relationship between the animal and its environment. Your shots should be different and varied to include pictures that show animal details that fill the frame of the picture, as well as details that place the animal in its surroundings. as the background of the same image. Stealth Stalking There are two basic ways to practice photography

For jungle life in the field, they are the undercover chase and hiding, and the undercover chase comes with shots determined by chance. Although success here requires patience and practice, it requires a number of devices and physical measures that were mentioned about what hiding is needed, and most of the beginners find that the requirements of stealth pursuit are less discouraging than the hardships of transporting and installing devices and waiting in Makhia to hunt .. the scene and methods of stealth pursuit

With a camera that is very similar to that used by the hunter, especially in imitating the behavior of animals, you must first of all have a practical knowledge of the animals that you seek to photograph, knowing their behavior systems, where they breed, their feeding habits, and when they can be approached, that is, knowing all the conditions of their behavior throughout the year and throughout the day. And if you are not aware of all this, the need calls for you to do research in this regard, and if you are about to work in a reserve For wild animals that are well organized, it is likely that you will find publications and media publications with those responsible for them, in which you will read the information you need and talk with specialists who can help you in your mission to photograph jungle animals. Because lower light levels may mean that you need fast films and lenses faster . And if your subject is an animal that feeds in groups rather than doing it alone, the odds are low that you can get close to it once you roam in a suitable location from its presence in the region known as monsoons in Asia, and we find that the distribution of water often determines how easy it is to approach the animals. In the dry season, the presence of water may be limited to only a few locations, and therefore the jungle life will be more concentrated in this wet and dry season, such as areas