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Sharpen your focus to boost chances for success in nature photography. Includes basic tips on specializing, camera equipment, preparing for a photo session, and marketing.

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By CHERYL ROGERS
Just getting interested in nature photography? Clarify your focus. The genre spans still images including gorgeous landscapes, sunrises and skies to action photos of scampering deer, buzzing bees, and flying birds.

While you may enjoy shooting both scenery and animals, it is a good idea to specialize with equipment designed to help you capture your specific subject matter. Or you may compromise with a travel-style zoom lens to get started.

Nature photography makes a great hobby you can enjoy with family, while you are outdoors, or on vacation. It´s a hobby you can parlay into a few bucks as well, maybe enough to pay for that new equipment! But be aware there is competition for stock art sales, very likely because shooting nature in the wild doesn´t require a model consent form. Getting some animals to stand still long enough, may be a challenge, though.

A wide angle may be just the right lens for landscapes, but floral shots and small insect shots may look best with macro. You can compromise with a telephoto lens, but you´ll lose some of the minute details. Long-range telephotos will get you closest to deer darting through the forest, or buffalos and antelopes, or even duck and geese gliding through the sky. A travel size zoom lens, ranging from 28 to 300 millimeters, is easy to carry and suffices for some shots, but watch for manufacturer precautions so you don´t damage your eyes shooting into the sun.

As with any type of photography, a great eye is a valuable skill. Shoot creatively, be willing to experiment, and most of all stay in the game. There´s a lot to learn about equipment, digital storage and editing, and scanning, but nothing beats hands-on experience with your equipment, shooting what you like to shoot.

Here are a few tips.

* Prepare yourself for a photo session by learning about your subject(s) ahead of time. It can be as basic as finding out the time of tomorrow´s sunrise or learning when the deer are likely to roam, like in the morning and at dusk. Photography may be more fun, but you´ll maximize your chances of success when you go where there are more animals, or when the lighting is best, and certainly with the right equipment.

* Be prepared to shoot lots of photos. Whatever your preference, digital or film, make sure your chip is large enough, you can dump photos onto your computer and continue shooting, or that you have plenty of film. When the moment´s gone, there´s no going back.

* Be patient and persistent. Be willing to stalk your subjects, lay in wait, don camouflage, get up in the middle of the night, take the same shot at different times of day, different seasons of the year, with different camera settings, etc.

* If you want to make money, consider selling to newspapers, magazines, online publishers, and stock photo companies. Be willing to design and make your photos available for book covers, calendars, posters, cards, mugs and more.

* Have fun. That´s what it´s all about, right?

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