Masterclass: Ultimate Field Guide to Wildlife Photography

Masterclass: Ultimate Field Guide to Wildlife Photography, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.5, with 87 lectures, based on 91 reviews, and has 416 subscribers.

You will learn about The most comprehensive course on wildlife photography on the Internet. This is the only course you need to complete, to learn in-depth all facets of wildlife photography. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned photographer with or without experience in wildlife photography, you will still find this course extremely valuable. In this course, you get the complete lowdown on the ideal equipment for wildlife photography. Apart from picking the right cameras and lenses to suit your shooting needs and your budget, this course will also introduce you to some really useful accessories for wildlife photography. Composition can make or break an image. This course teaches you all you need to know about how to compose your shot by applying the rule of thirds. Light lies at the heart of photography. The course teaches you to paint with light and create stunning imagery. You will also learn about story-telling imagers that have the potential to win competitions. In the course, your mentor talks extensively on some of the hottest wildlife destinations in India. Places that he has frequented, along with the wildlife shooting opportunities at each place. This is also a ready reckoner which is the best season, park timings, on how to plan your visit, and the safari booking options available at these destinations. Shooting technique is vital in wildlife photography, more so during safaris. In this course, you will learn the various shooting techniques, workarounds during safaris and the various accessories to facilitate and aid an optimal shooting experience. Whether or not to use a tripod in your safari vehicle; if you can use, what’s the best way to do it; how to shoot handheld – these are some of the topics that will be explained. Theory of reciprocity and its relevance in wildlife photography is another concept dealt with in great detail. You will also gain a firm understanding of concepts of exposure triangle, its dependence on metering and other related topics. In our quest for great pictures, we often forget some of the basics. This course touches upon such aspects as care for your equipment during safaris, care for your own health and safety and most important, the ethical aspects of wildlife photography. This course is ideal for individuals who are Aspiring wildlife photographers and even those who are already into wildlife photography will find this course immensely useful and relevant. It is particularly useful for Aspiring wildlife photographers and even those who are already into wildlife photography will find this course immensely useful and relevant.

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Title: Masterclass: Ultimate Field Guide to Wildlife Photography

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.5

Number of Lectures: 87

Number of Published Lectures: 87

Number of Curriculum Items: 87

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 87

Original Price: ₹3,299

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What You Will Learn

The most comprehensive course on wildlife photography on the Internet. This is the only course you need to complete, to learn in-depth all facets of wildlife photography. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned photographer with or without experience in wildlife photography, you will still find this course extremely valuable.
In this course, you get the complete lowdown on the ideal equipment for wildlife photography. Apart from picking the right cameras and lenses to suit your shooting needs and your budget, this course will also introduce you to some really useful accessories for wildlife photography.
Composition can make or break an image. This course teaches you all you need to know about how to compose your shot by applying the rule of thirds.
Light lies at the heart of photography. The course teaches you to paint with light and create stunning imagery. You will also learn about story-telling imagers that have the potential to win competitions.
In the course, your mentor talks extensively on some of the hottest wildlife destinations in India. Places that he has frequented, along with the wildlife shooting opportunities at each place. This is also a ready reckoner which is the best season, park timings, on how to plan your visit, and the safari booking options available at these destinations.
Shooting technique is vital in wildlife photography, more so during safaris. In this course, you will learn the various shooting techniques, workarounds during safaris and the various accessories to facilitate and aid an optimal shooting experience. Whether or not to use a tripod in your safari vehicle; if you can use, what’s the best way to do it; how to shoot handheld – these are some of the topics that will be explained.
Theory of reciprocity and its relevance in wildlife photography is another concept dealt with in great detail. You will also gain a firm understanding of concepts of exposure triangle, its dependence on metering and other related topics.
In our quest for great pictures, we often forget some of the basics. This course touches upon such aspects as care for your equipment during safaris, care for your own health and safety and most important, the ethical aspects of wildlife photography.

Who Should Attend

Aspiring wildlife photographers and even those who are already into wildlife photography will find this course immensely useful and relevant.

Target Audiences

Aspiring wildlife photographers and even those who are already into wildlife photography will find this course immensely useful and relevant.

The most comprehensive online photography course on wildlife photography. This is the only course you need to complete, to learn in-depth all facets of wildlife photography. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned photographer with or without experience in wildlife photography, you will still find this course extremely valuable.

Sudhir has distilled his 23+ years of experience shooting in the wild in this single most comprehensive field guide for wildlife photography.

Through this tutorial, he has striven to cover every tiny detail pertaining to this genre of photography.

At the outset, he introduces the topic of wildlife photography and goes on to talk about the ideal equipment for wildlife photography.

There are several chapters dedicated to highlighting some of the best wildlife destinations in India and the opportunities present there to sight and shoot wildlife.

Sudhir places a lot of importance on subject knowledge in photography, more so wildlife photography. He has covered this subject in great detail and has talked about understanding animal behaviour and how to make use of this knowledge to get superlative shots. He emphasises how subject knowledge can help with pre visualisation – another vital concept in wildlife photography. Again, he drives home the point with numerous real-life examples.

Sudhir has dedicated several videos to illustrate the various challenges one may encounter while shooting during a safari and the ways in which to overcome these challenges. He also talks about the numerous accessories that help during safaris, some techniques and workarounds for shooting with long tele lens and many other tips and tricks to make the most of your safari experience.

Then there is also a whole set of videos where Sudhir has picked specific actions by the subjects and explained how to capture those flawlessly. In parallel these videos also deal with core technical aspects including shutter speed, focussing modes, auto focussing points in different cameras and so on. Composition is another topic he has dealt with in great depth.

He then covers the topics of post processing which is an integral part of digital photography and takes you through the various steps he follows to get back that life in the images.

Apart from the core photography aspects, Sudhir has covered numerous other topics including the ethical aspects of wildlife photography; equipment care and safety and healthcare during safaris; post processing and more.

Finally he has a few chapters which are dedicated to real life examples from the field.

In a nutshell, this is the one course you need to sign up for if you are an aspiring wildlife photographer or for that matter even a fairly seasoned one, for there is so much to learn here for everyone.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction – Your Complete Guide to Wildlife Photography

Lecture 1: Introduction – Your Complete Guide to Wildlife Photography

Chapter 2: Equipment for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 1: Equipment for Wildlife Photography

Chapter 3: Identifying the locations for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 1: Various Locations in India for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 2: Sudhir's Favourite Destinations for Wildlife Photography

Chapter 4: Safari / Game Drive for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 1: Safari / Game Drive for Wildlife Photography

Chapter 5: Understanding the Behavioural Aspects of Animals

Lecture 1: Introduction to Subject Knowledge in Wildlife Photography

Lecture 2: Subject Knowledge – Understanding Tigers

Lecture 3: Subject Knowledge – Understanding Leopards

Lecture 4: Subject Knowledge – Understanding Elephants

Lecture 5: Subject Knowledge – Understanding Wild Dogs

Lecture 6: Subject Knowledge – Understanding Sloth Bears

Lecture 7: Subject Knowledge – Understanding other Common Animals

Chapter 6: Subject Knowledge and Previsualization

Lecture 1: How to use Subject Knowledge for Planning your Shot

Lecture 2: Previsualize – Tigers Crossing with Vehicles in backdrop

Lecture 3: Spotted Deers Action Photography

Lecture 4: Photographing Macaque with Rim Light Effect

Lecture 5: Spotted Deer Behaviour after out of Water

Lecture 6: Previsualising in the Field – Tigers in the Grassland

Lecture 7: Understanding Behaviour of Monkeys and Planning your Shot:

Lecture 8: Lion in Rain and Capturing its Behaviour

Lecture 9: Understanding Behaviour of Leopard and Planning your shot

Chapter 7: Signature Shots in Wildlife

Lecture 1: Signature Shots in Wildlife

Chapter 8: The Concept of Story-telling Images

Lecture 1: The Concept of Story-telling Images

Chapter 9: Shooting Techniques in Wildlife

Lecture 1: Best Way to Shoot from Safari Vehicle

Lecture 2: How to use Tripod in a Safari Vehicle

Lecture 3: Handheld Shooting Technique to get Sharp Images

Lecture 4: Handheld Shooting from a Safari Vehicle

Lecture 5: Technique to Support Long Tele lens in Safari Vehicle

Lecture 6: Workarounds for Shooting with a Long Tele lens:

Lecture 7: Using a Clamp While Shooting in Safari Vehicle

Lecture 8: Combination of Beanbag and Panning Pod – Best Setup for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 9: Carrying Equipment in the field

Chapter 10: Technical Aspects of wildlife photography

Lecture 1: Using Aperture Priority and Lowest f Number

Lecture 2: Shutter Priority Shooting Mode for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 3: When to Use Shutter Priority and When not to Use

Lecture 4: What is the Best Shutter Speed for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 5: All about Manual Exposure for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 6: When to use what Shooting Mode in Wildlife Photography

Lecture 7: Theory of Reciprocity – Most Important for Low-light shooting

Lecture 8: Understanding Camera Metering

Lecture 9: Different Kinds of Metering Modes Available

Lecture 10: When to Use what Metering Mode for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 11: The Challenges of Spot Metering in Wildlife

Lecture 12: Focusing Modes to be Used for Wildlife Photography

Lecture 13: Understanding Auto Focusing Points in Canon

Lecture 14: Understanding Auto Focusing Points in Nikon / Sony

Lecture 15: Using the AF Distance Switch on the Lens

Lecture 16: The Concept of Shooting in Auto ISO

Lecture 17: How to get the Best out of an Entry-level Camera

Lecture 18: Tigers Fighting – What Went Wrong in Execution

Lecture 19: Tiger Climbing a Tree – How to be Ready for such Actions

Lecture 20: Jumping Blackbucks – How to Arrive at Correct Camera Settings and Composition

Lecture 21: The Concept of High-key and Low-key Images

Chapter 11: The Art of Composition

Lecture 1: How to Compose Extreme Close-up Subjects

Lecture 2: Getting to the Eye Level in Wildlife Photography

Lecture 3: Eye Contact and Head Turn for Better Impact

Lecture 4: When to Zoom In and When to Zoom Out

Lecture 5: Bad Compositions in Wildlife Photography

Lecture 6: The Art of Black and White Photography

Lecture 7: The Concept of Rim Lighting

Lecture 8: All About Making Creative Images

Lecture 9: Practically Understanding Subject Placement

Lecture 10: What are Distractions in your Composition

Lecture 11: Photographing around Water Bodies

Lecture 12: Shooting Angle while on Foot

Lecture 13: Understanding the Concept of Head Turn and Eye Contact in the Field

Lecture 14: Using AF Points for Proper Composition

Lecture 15: Photography – All about Playing with Light

Chapter 12: Equipment and Health care during safari

Lecture 1: Equipment Care During Wildlife Safaris

Lecture 2: Care for your Health During Safaris/Wildlife Photography

Chapter 13: Post Processing Tips for Wildlife Images

Lecture 1: Introduction to Post Processing for Wildlife Images

Lecture 2: Filtering and deleting bad images from your trip

Lecture 3: Right Application to Process RAW files

Lecture 4: How I process my Wildlife Images – Complete Workflow

Lecture 5: Working with Shadow and Highlights Slider for RAW Files

Lecture 6: Processing High Key and Low Key Images

Chapter 14: Practical Field Examples

Lecture 1: The Story of Tiger and Gaur

Lecture 2: Photographing Wild Dogs

Lecture 3: Photographing Five Pythons in the Field

Lecture 4: How to Arrive at the Correct White Balance

Lecture 5: Concept of Pre-visualising and Animal Behaviour

Lecture 6: Studying the behaviour and planning your shot

Lecture 7: Close-up vs Habitat Shots

Lecture 8: How to Arrive at the Correct Shooting Angle

Lecture 9: Understanding Light and Planning your Shot

Chapter 15: Ethical aspects of Wildlife Photography

Instructors

Sudhir Shivaram
Photography Mentor

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