Gurcharan Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Dear fellow photographers I would be interested to know about any nature photographers on this forum, especially interested in photography of plants, animal especially birds. I would help in improving our technique through exchange of experiences and knowledge. I am a Plant taxonomist, having taken to digital photography from 2005. Have rich collection of photographs from USA, mainly California, Western Himalayas including Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu & Kashmir, and Recently Bangalore, all in India. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Burdett Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Good looking pictures Gurchuran. I have had some success with plants and insects here. The only comment I would make from a technique perspective is to try and avoid bright sunlight. It can work occasionally but generally with bright colours it produces too much contrast and tends to blow out the red channel, leading to loss of colour information or underexposure to compensate. Regarding keywords, try to avoid putting in whats not in the picture, for example if its a flower close up dont use "pinnate leaves" in the keywords. Best of luck, sounds like you have an interesting collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurcharan Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 Thanks a lot Keith for useful tips. I saw your collection and really impressed. Good to see you have interest both in plants, especially trees and insect life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Yes, bright overcast days are nature's soft box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurcharan Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 Thanks Betty, you are a true artist. Many like me would take your processed photographs as paintings, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Another 4000px-downsizer, I see, Betty. I'm in good company then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurcharan Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 Thanks spacecadet, I am truly in elite company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Thanks Betty, you are a true artist. Many like me would take your processed photographs as paintings, Thank you! ☺️ You checked out my link? That's where my heart is. Doing artistic things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Another 4000px-downsizer, I see, Betty. I'm in good company then.Yeah, I do a lot of that, lol. Depends on the image, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Richmond Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Hi Gurcharan Another plant and animal (well, mostly insects) photographer here. Good looking collection you've got there but you've got a number of almost identical shots with only slight cropping differences. At this stage it's best to be ruthless and only submit the best one. The other thing you don't have at the moment is a lot of portrait (vertical) shots. It's not always possible to take them all but if you can include a mix of landscape and portrait, wider and close up shots you give the buyers a better choice. With cultivated plants it's also always best to include the name of the cultivar if you know it. Buyers can be extremely selective. They are often looking for an image of a specific cultivar to illustrate an article. That certainly shows up in my searches, views and sales. You'll need a good range and a good number of good images to get regular sales. One of the things I did when I first started contributing to Alamy two years ago was to check the competition for any image I thought of submitting. If there were a lot of similar images - ie same species and cultivar for plants - I only submitted my very best shot. If the number of images was considerably less I might submit two or three. Only if there was no competition at all would I submit a larger number of shots (assuming I had them). Life gets a bit easier if you attain, via sales and zooms, a decent ranking. Then, on the principal that a rising tide floats all boats, you can afford to submit more images of popular subjects knowing yours will be pushed towards the front of the queue for the buyer's attention. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Excellent advice, John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurcharan Posted February 20, 2016 Author Share Posted February 20, 2016 Thanks John, truly very good tips. I will surely keep these in mind. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Another 4000px-downsizer, I see, Betty. I'm in good company then.Yeah, I do a lot of that, lol. Depends on the image, of course. It's in my export preset so it's everything now. I even size right down to the minimum occasionally. 3250 IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panthera tigris Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I only do nature, I gave up on other types of photography quite sometime ago - mainly because I wanted to concentrate on what brings me enjoyment to photograph. I just do one country (Thailand). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 And here's another one (in fact, Arterra is a little agency) who deals in nature (wildlife, plants, behavior, the whole shebang) Just back from a week shooting wildlife in the snow. WOEHA! And now I have a running nose Cheers, Philippe Don't forget to take a picture of your running nose. It may sell better than any of those nice fluffy animals. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurcharan Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 Nice to know some more nature/wild life photographs. Hope to learn from you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Moose + moose = ............................................................................euh.............. what's the plural of "moose"? Cheers, Philippe moose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 And here's another one (in fact, Arterra is a little agency) who deals in nature (wildlife, plants, behavior, the whole shebang) Just back from a week shooting wildlife in the snow. WOEHA! And now I have a running nose Cheers, Philippe Don't forget to take a picture of your running nose. It may sell better than any of those nice fluffy animals. wim Nah, Alamy has already plenty of running noses. On the other hand, there seems to be zero pictures of .......... close up shots of pedicel scars on a moose's head ..... .... ... nor headbutting mice .... .. ............................................................................euh.............. what's the plural of "moose"? Cheers, Philippe Not sure there are enough: a close up of just a runny nose? Blowing one's nose? A nice MR wide angle close-up shot? Moose: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moose?s=t wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsMadsen Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 ............................................................................euh.............. what's the plural of "moose"? Meece? Mooses? ;-) I also primarily do nature photography. You have a lot of great photos by the way Philippe. Sadly Wim may actually be right that a closeup of a running nose will probably sell better than most pictures of obscure animal and plant species... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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