David Johnston

MPB: Camera Settings in Wildlife Photography

David Johnston

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In this sponsored video brought to you by MPB, Buy and Sell Camera Gear, Outdoor Photography Guide’s David Johnston discusses wildlife photography and the importance of camera settings. When you photograph wildlife, you need to pay attention to basics. In wildlife photography, it’s about speed and motion.

That is why you need fast shutter speed. David recommends settings of 1/1000 all the way up to 1/2500 because animals are unpredictable and fast moving, and you are capturing all the activity in a wildlife scene.

You should also consider composition. If you are you blending the animal with the landscape, you need to shoot at an aperture of f/8 or higher, which will capture everything in focus. If you are isolating the animal, you need a wide aperture setting to create a blur effect around the subject. You can also use a continuous shooting mode like ten frames per second.

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