Sporting Shooter

Photography For Hunters

I get as much enjoyment from photography as I do hunting. It has become a ritual for me when I return from a trip to make a coffee and sit at my laptop going over all of the images; deleting the bad ones, appreciating the good ones and editing to bring them to life. Over the years I’ve learned a lot about photography and I’ve reached a point where I feel that I can take an excellent photo in almost any situation. Here I will share some of that knowledge and experience to help you to improve your photography, so you can further enjoy sharing your images and, perhaps, even illustrating magazine articles for Sporting Shooter.

VISUALISATION is a conscious process of projecting the final photographic image in the mind before taking the first steps to actually photographing the subject. One of the greatest landscape photographers ever, Ansel Adams, instructed the photographer to frame the picture first with the eye and then match it through the camera viewfinder.

Composition.

It may sound obvious but it’s often best to fill the

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