What do you think, when you heard about the word wildlife photography, isn't it an exciting and adventurous thing to do. Let me tell you wildlife photography needs lots of dedication, hard work, patience and daring. It is one of the most thrilling and difficult or you can say a most challenging form of photography. It captures animals behavior in natural habitat and nature's scenery.
In today's post, we will guide you about the career option in wildlife photography.
Why you should pursue wildlife photography, skills required, educational qualification and Income from wildlife photography.
1. Why you should be a wildlife photographer
There are lots of reasons to become a wildlife photographer. If you have passion towards photography, nature, wild animals and if you love traveling around the world this is a perfect career option for you to pursue.
We have listed some of the important points that catch your attention towards wildlife photography.
(i) Nature's delight
You will experience a new world, a world full of joy and adventure. When you capture wild animals the day to day activities, you will get more attached to wildlife and that gets you closer to nature , with the help of your pictures you can portrait a different angle of qualities wildlife have.Experiencing the behavior of wild animals in there natural environment and showing world there activities excites you and reveal secrets about wildlife.
(ii) Protecting Nature
With the help of your pictures and close research of nature, you will be able to understand nature better than common peoples. In order to protect your nature, you will have to be it's Ambassador ie. clicking pictures of nature and wildlife and sending the world a message to protect such an amazing lifestyle.You have to be a part of it, for that, you have to give your time in settling there, understanding the behaviors of the particular animal and after that, you should get ready to take your perfect shot.
(iii) Capturing Life
Every moment you catch or capture in your camera is equaled to capturing a life in a timeline.Capturing a perfect shot may take lots of time that means lots of dedication and hard work applied in order to get it.When you get your shot, it is a lifetime achievement as you have captured that moment for forever and makes it immortal. Sometimes photographers wait for days and weeks for a perfect shot. Adaptive skills were required to adapt to different situations and environment as different places give different level of challenges.
(iv) New World
While you were camping and doing your research for a particular species or animal, you leave all your worries and tension behind. You adapt to the new world of wildlife with some local peoples and progressively do your work in order to get a perfect shot, that experience you a new world ie. stress-free environment.
(v) Wildlife Secret
After lots of research on animals you know very well about their behaviors and activities that are still untold to the common people outside wildlife, you have the opportunities to capture those moments or activities and makes a solid portrayal of new behavior unknown to others.
(vi) Patience
One of the main skill that a photographer should have is patience.In wildlife photography, perfect shot is not in your hand as it is of natures. Perfect place and perfect timing can only be achieved by patience. You can have to sit at a single place for hours or stalk an animal for hours to get a worth shot.Patience with the mixture of timing is the best combination for the best shot.
2. Career as Wildlife Photographer
(i) Skills:- A person who wants to be a wildlife photographer should have several skills as follows:-
a) Passion: Passion towards photography and wildlife is compulsory, you should be working with heart. If you like your job, then automatically you will give your dedication and hard work 100%.
b) Adventure loving: In this job you need to be adventurous as this work requires lots of traveling and roaming in the forest and stalking wild creatures and needs little bit daring too.
c) Creative Thinking: Sometimes to get a perfect shot you have to think out of the box and this skill helps you in that.
d) Communicating skills: During your stay at forest or camp you have to communicate with local peoples, forest scientist. Communication helps you understand better and fast.
e) Technical knowledge: There are several modern types of equipment present with you, you need your technical knowledge to use its fullest.You should have full knowledge about the equipment you are using.
f) Surviving skills: There are several occasion where you live several days in the forest between wild animals in that case you should have surviving skills to keep you alive.
ii) Educational Qualification :
As education is not a mandatory brick in the building of good photographer, but it strengthens the base. There are several Diploma/Certificate courses ranging from 2 years to 4 years in Photography.
The main course is Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism or Photography, but there are very few colleges available which give these courses.
In these courses, they trained you and gives you knowledge about photography ranging from basic to advanced. After studying photography it makes little easier to capture good pictures.
iii) Jobs :
Most of the photographers choose to work as the freelancer, but if you want a job you can collaborate with magazines, wildlife magazines, photography magazines, geographical channels, newspapers. Freelancers can sell their pictures to media or NGO, take part in the contest held nationally and internationally, open collection center for your picture and organize the presentation of your work.
iv) Salary:
As you join the club as freshers you can expect a salary around Rs 5000 - Rs 15000 a month.
Increase in work experience and exposure to several works you can gain up to
Rs 30000 - Rs 5,00,000 per month .
So, Best of luck for future.
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