These are great wildlife photos. As a very new beginner I went out and shot wildlife this last weekend. Obviously I did not get any shots worth putting up here. Can't wait to go out again hopefully I will get a shot worthy of posting here.
Roger
you will, metro parks where the animals are accustomed to seeing people are the time are a great place to go, do a google search for birding or wild life spots in your area and start going to check the places out till you find some that you like. i think i have 3 or 4 places i go regularly and a few i got to occasionally. if find places with lots of trees and large lakes or bodies of water are good places to go.
first off you got to find the right spots where the types of animals you want to shoot frequently hang out. than you have to be very patient and wait for something to come along, once you see something you either need to be very still and wait for it to get close to you, or you have to get close to it with out scaring it away.
where i go i mainly see birds, when i am shooting birds if there is a tree where i see lots of birds regularly ill get close to the tree and set on my little portable seat or just stand there and wait if i do not have my seat and try not to move around much. pretty soon birds will start to fly into the tree, i move the camera into position slowly and wait for one to get on a branch were its kind of out in the open. you really don't want shots where there are a bunch of tree branches in front of the bird.. some times it fly's away before it moves to a good spot where i can shoot it. when i see them in the lake i just stand still on the shore and wait and hope it gets close enough that i can get a good shot. bigger birds are much easier to shoot compared to small birds. you need to be really close or have allot of zoom to shoot small things.
some days i go out and i barley see anything to shoot and come home with nothing, some days there are birds everywhere so it can definitely be hit and miss.. for me finding them was the hardest part, now that i know of a few good spots i usually have a pretty descent day when i go out shooting but not always.
