Avoid HDR (High Dynamic Range) that looks like a video game. Over-saturation, ghosting, and halos around antlers are the hallmarks of amateur work. In fine art nature prints, subtlety is power.
Yet the economics of conservation imagery are precarious. The same beautiful photograph that raises funds for a reserve can also fuel eco-tourism that degrades that very reserve. The same charismatic megafauna—tiger, elephant, panda—that sells magazines overshadows the unsightly, the unphotogenic, the invertebrate. Conservation becomes a beauty pageant. The fungal networks, the soil biota, the nocturnal insects—the real engines of ecosystems—remain unshot, unloved, unfunded. The camera has a deep bias toward the vertebrate, the diurnal, the large, the expressive. -ArtOfZoo- - Lise- Pleasure Flower
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No photo is worth distressing an animal or damaging a habitat. Respect the "Leave No Trace" principles. Avoid HDR (High Dynamic Range) that looks like a video game
Classic photography rules like the Rule of Thirds apply to snapshots. But thrives on advanced composition techniques borrowed from classical painting. Yet the economics of conservation imagery are precarious