Wildlife Photographer

Wildlife Photographer 

Wildlife photography is a genre of photography concerned with documenting various forms of wildlife in their natural habitat. As well as requiring photography skills, wildlife photographers may need field craft skills.

These specialized professionals must have a working knowledge of theanimals they may encounter, as well as the habitat where they will work.While wildlife photographs can be taken using basic equipment, successful photography of some types of wildlife requires specialist equipment, such as macro lenses for insects, long focal length lenses for birds and underwater cameras for marine life. 

Quality Wildlife Photography

The quality of your wildlife images depends upon capturing the most interesting behavior of the animals you wish to photograph. The wildlife photography is that a photographer must never do anything which endangers or unduly stresses an animal. It is the animal’s natural behavior that provides opportunities for interesting photographs, and you should do nothing to alter that behavior. 

Alaskan brown bear photographers, on the other hand, will want to capture the concentration of bears as they feed on a run of salmon. They’ll need to know when and where the salmon are running, and how the bears are likely to behave as they’re feeding. Now, if you want to capture the pageantry of a caribou migration, you’ll need to identify a location where you can photograph the herd just after the calves are born. You’ll also need to know how you can get close enough to this phenomena to create quality photos.

Camera and Lens Support

Perhaps the most important piece of equipment for wildlife photographers is a high quality, heavy-duty tripod. Although there are many brands available, the ultimate tripods are manufactured by Gitzo although Manfrotto, Slik, Benbo, and other companies also produce excellent tripods. Today, the photographer can choose between traditional metal styles and the newer carbon fiber construction. No matter which material you chose, it is essential that the tripod be sturdy enough to support your longest lens at slow shutter speeds, but not so heavy or unwieldy as to keep you from using it. 

The gimbal style is excellent for the fast action of wildlife photography with a long, heavy lens because its design suspends the lens at its balancing point, allowing it to swing easily from side to side and up and down. My favorite example of this style is the Wimberly Sidekick which fits into a traditional ballhead, converting it to a gimbal head. 

Eligibility

The common eligibility criterion for a diploma in photography is that the students must have passed their 10+2. The marks of admission for this course may vary from institute to institute. In various colleges, they conduct entrance exams plus an interview and also consider the percentage of 12th class for the admission.

To become a Wildlife Photographer take admission in  Diploma in photography

Diploma in Photography

Diploma in Photography teaches the activity, strategy, process, and art of creating and inventing still as well as moving photographs by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, for example, a photographic film and an electronic sensor.

Diploma in Photography includes subjects such as:

• History of Photography
• Introduction to Image Making
• Basics of Digital Photography
• Basics of Photoshop
• Basics of Printing
• Street Photography
• Photojournalism

you have to clear some entrance exam which is conduct by 

Diploma in Photography colleges in India

• Delhi School of Photography Entrance Exam
• Andhra University - AU Entrance Exam
• Creative Hut Institute of Photography and Film Entrance Exam

Salary of a Wildlife Photographer

A wide range of jobs is available for a photographer. Talented and hardworking professional photographers can work for fashion magazines, designers, advertising companies, etc. Demand for skilled photographers is more in newspapers and news channels to report daily events. A photographer can work as a freelancer as well.A wildlife Photographer annual salary between 2 lac to 4 lac as a fresher.

Companies which is hired by HDFC, ICICI ..etc