Nature Photography

Nature Photography

Nature photography can refer to multiple types of photography taken outdoors and devoted to natural elements and disasters. Ranging from landscapes, wildlife, plants and natural scenes and texture, nature photography can cover these many things and more.

Nature photography is commonly used for photographic genres like photojournalism and documentary photography. Photographs of nature are published in travel, cultural and scientific magazines such as National Geographic Magazine and some of the best known nature photographers include: 

•  Frans Lanting 
• Galen Rowell
• Eliot Porter
• Art Wolfe.

To the left is a photograph of a landscape and on the right is a photo of wildlife in a forest

Wildlife photography is devoted taking images of animals in their natural habitats nd are often captures in action either flying, fighting or eating. However, the techniques required for a wildlife photographer differs greatly from a landscape photographer. Wide apertures are used to achieve a fast shutter speed and freeze the motion of the subject in wildlife photography. Landscape photographers prefer to use small apertures. 

Macro photography can be used in nature photography to capture close up, sharp images of insects and small animals. Also, for close up images of stone texture, leaves or tree trunks, macro photography would be brilliant.

Macro images of an insect and a flower.

I think nature photography is beautiful and stunning to observe because not only are they bold, colourful images most of the time, but they show animals and flowers etc from other parts of the world, giving us an idea of just how incredible other parts of the world are.