In 2017, Gigi Cowan-Bondick established GMCB Photography in Concord, Massachusetts. While Gigi Bondick engages with businesses to enhance their brand development and social media initiatives through photography, she primarily focuses her work on wildlife and outdoor photography.

1. The Best Tips for
Photographing
Wildlife
Gigi Bondick

2. Introduction
– In 2017, Gigi Cowan-Bondick established GMCB Photography in
Concord, Massachusetts. While Gigi Bondick engages with businesses
to enhance their brand development and social media initiatives
through photography, she primarily focuses her work on wildlife and
outdoor photography.
Wildlife can make for a spectacular, if not unusually difficult, subject
for photographers. Because most wild animals prefer to keep a safe
distance from humans, it can be a challenge to take quality
photographs with a standard lens. Therefore, most professional
photographers recommend utilizing a long lens. For DSLR or
mirrorless cameras, a zoom lens with a focal length of 200 millimeters
or more is optimal, while a point and shoot camera should have an
optical zoom setting of at least 60x.

3. Photographing Wildlife
– A camera’s flash setting is another feature that must be taken into
account. Flash should be avoided whenever possible, as it will
produce unnaturally lit photographs (if it doesn’t scare the animal
away altogether). For cameras with built-in auto flash, it is essential to
disable flash before snapping a shot.
Finally, photographers must think about their own positioning when
seeking out wildlife, a consideration that is not always on the mind of
those accustomed to taking pictures of stationary, willing subjects. For
example, they must be quiet and appropriately dressed (i.e.,
camouflaged) as they enter an animal’s habitat. Similarly, it can be
helpful to use a camera with a quiet shutter, otherwise there may be
only one attempt at getting the perfect shot.