Introduction to Wildlife Photography

It’s amazing how many people think you need a bag full of expensive lenses and pockets deep enough to bankroll safari adventures in faraway lands to photograph wildlife. Regardless of where you live, how hot it gets in the summertime or how cold it gets in the wintertime, you’re surrounded by wildlife the moment you step out your door. The fact of the matter is, if you live near a park or, for that matter, have trees outside your window, wildlife is all around you.

Photographs © Allan Weitz 2021

Going eye-to-eye at ground level with an Eastern Box Turtle with a 200mm macro lens. The longer focal length of the lens allowed for greater distance between us, which in turn made the turtle feel safer about checking me out.

Cameras and Lenses for Wildlife Photography

As stated above, you don’t need fancy equipment to photograph wildlife. The truth is, the kit lens that came with your camera is quite capable of capturing interesting wildlife photographs. The photographs that illustrate this article were taken with relatively simple camera gear—a full-frame mirrorless camera, a close-focusing 25mm f/2.8 wide-angle lens, a 200mm macro lens, and a close-focusing 400mm f/8 mirror lens.

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