Nature Watching
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Are you a bird watcher or a bird spotter?
- Science Video
- behavior
- biomes
- flowering
- Life Science
- reptiles
- amphibians
- food web
- insects
- invertebrates
- non-flowering
- birds
- fish
- animals
- ecology
- plants
- adaptation
- environmental
- techniques
- observation
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Camera
What's a good camera for nature watching? I'm doing a project on nature, and I need pictures of wildlife around where I live. Thanks!
A zoom lens helps, for
A zoom lens helps, for getting photos of birds and other things at a distance, but you can take great photographs of wildlife with pretty much any camera. While expensive cameras help some, the photographer makes the biggest difference. Learn to see like a photographer, and you will be able to take good wildlife photos with any camera.
First, take LOTS of photos. When you see an insect on a flower, don't just take one picture. Instead, take 20 or 30, from different angles, some close and some at a distance. On an average day of shooting, I take several hundred photographs, and if I find something special, I might take more than a hundred shots of that one thing. Why? Because many of the pictures won't be what I want. Some will have motion blur, the wrong lighting, the wrong thing in focus, or just not the positioning that I wanted. Out of all those pictures, I can usually find 10 or 15 that I like.
Think about the photographs that you see in nature books or National Geographic, and try to think of how those photographers would shoot it. The small, "point and shoot" cameras are incredible for closeup shots, often better than my expensive macro lens.
Lure the wildlife to you. For birds, put out bird feeders and a bird bath. It may take a few days for them to find it, but once they do, you will have lots of birds. Put it near a window, and you will be able to photograph them up close without scaring them away. Close the curtains most of the way, giving you a tiny opening to photograph through. Put the camera right up against the glass to prevent glare.
Good luck and good shooting. If you run into questions, email me.
Can you get a good
Can you get a good camera for $50 or under? That's how much money I have to buy a camera with. I have more, for when I need it. Thanks!
Hannah
Check Walmart. The Kodak
Check Walmart. The Kodak Easyshare camera is about $50, I think, and it gets very good reviews. It also takes 14 megapixel photos, which means you can zoom in fairly well with photo editing software, to make your wildlife shots look better.
The Kodak Easyshare camera
The Kodak Easyshare camera is maybe the one I'm going to get. Do you ever wish you had a smaller camera? Oh, by the way, when I'm doing my nature experiment, should I bring a guide book so I know what birds or animals I'm watching? Thanks!
Hannah
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Dear Mr. Krampf:
I have a cool idea, maybe you could have a photography contest on your website! A nature photography contest where contestants have to take a photo of something in nature. You could have like different categories like "birds" (since it's such a popular thing to photograph) "animals (excluding birds)" and "other" (like trees, canyons, ocean, etc...) and you could have first second and third place for each category. You wouldn't have to have a prize, just that the winners photos get placed on the website!
-Leah
I have been thinking of doing
I have been thinking of doing just that. I tried a "test" contest on my Facebook page, but did not get many photo entries. I am rethinking it, and will try it here soon. Thanks1
If you do do one, maybe you
If you do do one, maybe you could post it on this site too as well as your facebook so that those who don't have facebook could know about the contest! I would have entered if I would have seen that there was one!
This viedo
THIS VIDEO HAS VERY BEAUTIFUL BIRDS BUT IT NEEDS JUST A LITTLE MORE DETAILS.
TIJUANA
DR.W.J.CREEL
just "looks good"
i love this video it is awesome!!! but i think "looks good" is not enough for this video. it needs an a+
Cathryne
um.......
um.. ether your copying my name or your name is Cathryne to.
Cåth®yne (a farr kid)
just what i need!
cool awesome amazing!! teenagers get out there!!!
animals r just so amazing
i think animals r JuST sO cool. they r just so amazing they can do things u cant beleive their also very talented. p.s. im cool n i think robert krampf is pretty kewl to
looks good
looks good
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