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by Editor Swapnil
As a genre, wildlife has the most adventurous aura around it within most photographers in the world. It is one of those forms that require immense photography skills along with the knowledge of the subjects to anticipate their movements and their behavioural patterns. Along with these skills you do need great luck and be at the right time at the right place to make that photograph which makes people go wow!
Apart from skills, knowledge and luck there is a fourth dimension, which we all come to think of before investing in, is GEAR. While wildlife photographs can be taken using basic equipment, successful photography of some types of wildlife requires specialist equipment, such as macro lenses for insects, long focal length lenses for birds and underwater cameras for marine life.
In short you need high-end cameras and focal lengths ranging from 8mm to 800mm if you are a professional wildlife photographer.
Thankfully amateurs can pursue wildlife photography with great quality and pocket friendly cameras and lenses as well like telephoto zoom lens ranges like 100-400mm. Wildlife as a genre incorporates other genres like macro, landscape, underwater, abstracts to name a few. The focal length depends on what type of image you want to get.
Dedicated macro lenses for insects and other microscopic patterns, wide angle to mid range zoom lenses to get that habitat along with animal and long range to get close tight frames of mammals and birds are generally used.
As a term when someone speaks of wildlife it means just having a trip to remote parts of earth, away from civilizations and making pictures of predators or elusive animals. Though as a definition this is true, one can make wildlife pictures in gardens lakes and trees near homes as well.
Generally national parks are best suited for wildlife photography. Most nations have national parks where animals safely and freely roam around and jeep safaris can take photographers around the paths and track wild animals for photography. Parks in Africa, India, Srilanka, Borneo,South America are famous all over the world for the range of wildlife these regions have.
It is worthwhile to mention that these days wildlife genre has expanded its horizons from being a documentary form to an art form. Images are more known for the concepts of art in them than just how exclusive or rare the animal is. The beautiful use of light, mist, fog in environment to monochrome style of editing to create dramatic mood in images is the new trend in wildlife images. Light concepts from studios like spotlight, rim light, frontal light ,sidelight work just as well in wildlife creating frames that were pretty tough in film days.
1X is proud to have all these bases covered with the artists creating stunning wildlife images all over the world. Just scroll down to enjoy the beautiful world of animals through their eyes…
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 | Ahmed Thabet PRO I am basically seen and considered by many as an architectural photographer, but 1x knows the players on it is ground more than anyone, I am in love with bird photography, and it was my start with this business, later one I became maniac about architecture, but when I see one of my wild images presented by this way, really I felt euphoric, beautiful brilliant work from the other fellows artists, thanks a lot to dear Yvette. |
 | Jaco Marx PRO Also to swapnil, thank you very much (: |
 | Marc Pelissier PRO Thanks a lot for this great collection. Extremely inspiring for us with a great mix of unique instant, unique light, unique behaviour capture. Nature at its best. Thanks for the visual travel |
 | Yvette Depaepe CREW Thank you so much for your kind reaction, Marc! Swapnil did the writing, I took care of the "visual travel" ;-) Best greetings, Yvette |
| Marc Pelissier PRO Congratulations for both of you then ;-) |
| | Jaco Marx PRO Truly a great article and a refreshing read! Great to be part of it, a big thank you!!! |
| Yvette Depaepe CREW Thanks for your appreciation and for sharing your beautiful work on 1x, Jaco! |
 | Susanne Landolt PRO Great article and beautiful pictures! Thank you Swapnil and Yvette! I feel honored and surprised that one of my pictures has been selected...!! |
| Yvette Depaepe CREW Thanks for your appreciation, dear Susanne! |
 | Thierry Dufour PRO Un grand merci à toi aussi Yvette !!! |
| Yvette Depaepe CREW De rien, Thierry! Tout le plaisir est pour moi ;-) |
 | Anna Cseresnjes PRO beautiful images ... thanks for selecting one of mine regards Anna
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| Yvette Depaepe CREW Our pleasure, dear Anna! |
 | Simona Forte PRO Wow ! Thanks and congrats to all ! |
| Yvette Depaepe CREW Such a cute and excellent lion cubs shot of yours, Simona! A pleasure to select !!! Warm greetings, Yvette |
 | Eiji Itoyama PRO Swapnil and Yvette, Thank you so much for picking up this genre. Great stories and beautiful works that I really love. Also, I am truly honored that one of my work has been selected by two of you who I am a big fan of.!! |
| Yvette Depaepe CREW Thank you, dear Eiji. Congratulations and cheers, my friend! |
 | Swapnil PRO Arigato dear eiji ☺️ |
| | Swapnil PRO Congratulations to all the authors of these amazing pics... special thanks to yvette for selections of these amazing works!!! |
| Yvette Depaepe CREW No thanks, Swapnil. Your text was so good that I couldn't resist to expand the gallery ;-) Cheers, Yvette |
 | Massimo Della Latta Beautiful. Congratulations to everyone. |
 | Jois Domont ( J.L.G.) PRO Fantastic wild photos. Congratulations at all, superb works. Best greetings |
| Yvette Depaepe CREW Thanks a lot, Jois ;-) |
| | Thierry Dufour PRO Superb article, magnificent images, thank very much Swapnil to have taken a picture of my gallery, I am really honored. Best regards !!! |
| | Yvette Depaepe CREW Thanks for this great article, Swapnil. A large spectrum vision on Wildlife Photography is an excellent approach. Many congratulations to all the authors of this fantastic gallery!
Best greetings, Yvette |