Fill Flash and Wild Life Photography

Fill-flash is using your flash to fill-in darker parts of a picture already lit by other light. It is used for almost all my people photos outdoors.

Adding fill flash is easy: just turn on your camera's flash, and almost all cameras today automatically give the results where if the subject is backlit by the sun that that flash will light the front of the subject so there is no shadow there. You don't need to mess with any settings. You just press the shutter release button and your camera does the rest. On most DSLR cameras the flash pops up the flash by itself and the camera does the rest. Indoors, fill-flash lets you see people's faces better, and lets you light up an interior of a room and see out the window better than HDR. Outdoors, fill flash lights-up faces so they aren't drowned in shadows.

This image is an example if fill flash photography.. The image on the left has not been shot with a fill flash while the image on the right has. You can see the significant difference in how there is hardly any shade on the gentleman's face on the right. WildLife Photography is one of the most challenging forms of photography because it involved you getting into an intimate relationship with your subject because you are entering into their home to photograph them. Wild life photographers need to know what their surroundings are and understand their subjects behavior before trying to tango with a stranger. They need to be like the experienced hunters who hunt these animals in a way of being able to stalk the subject and hide from these animals for optimum concealment. The equipment used for these kinds of photographs are macro lenses for insects and long focal length lenses for birds or for those larger more dangerous animals. This Image would be an example of Wildlife photography where most likely the photographer would be hidden at a distance because brown bear are particularly aggressive towards humans if they are in their habitat. You as a photographer are there to view the animals and not to disturb or interact with them.