>>3310533>what else is there to say about theseNot every shot has to tell a story, Anon. If you don't find them aesthetically pleasing, there's not much left for you.
>get the animals in frameThis applies to every other photo ever taken; you must get your subject in the frame. Also, give it a try sometime with wild animals, especially skittish ones. There is a lot more to it. I'll just take your snark as an opportunity to tell a story, which I always document with test shots / ID shots as I go:
For the fox photo from yesterday, a lot of work was put in. I waited all day until dusk, when I saw 3 deer on the other side of a clearing, about 200 feet away. I slowly started approaching them when I saw the fox sleeping on a boulder to my right, at the bottom of a hill. Fox is better than deer, so I switched subjects. It wasn't a very good shot for the fox (bad background and lighting) so I used the deer to get him to move.
I headed down the hill toward the fox, moving only while the wind was blowing to cover my sound. It took about 5 minutes to get into a position where I felt I had some options. Then I threw a rock toward the deer, causing them to look over. I then waved, and they snorted and ran off about 200 feet, standing there staring at me. The fox heard this and got spooked from the boulder, running uphill into the sunlight (they always retread to high ground) and stared at the deer for a while. Eventually, he settled down on the spot, which was much more photogenic than the boulder was. I waited another 5 minutes until he fell asleep again, and until the lighting got even better, then spent the next 10 minutes skirting around him to get a nice background instead of that brush immediately behind him.
It's not just a matter of point-and-shoot for me. I try to get the best results that I can achieve, and have a lot of fun doing it. It's very rewarding.
