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This companion blog mainly hosts links that I want to mark for later reference. It's my virtual collection. As I read through literally thousands of blog postings, patterns naturally reveal themselves. Hey, it's a hobby that I enjoy. All links are gathered manually, i.e., I do not use any kind of automated search query. I figure I might as well share what I've found. Plus, I'm using this as a tester blog, so you might see a few oddities from time to time.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

staging wildlife photographs

For the most part, I don't... obviously, given the nature of my usually crappy photos. Sometimes, I won't even move a blade of grass from a frame, because I don't want to disturb the "how I found it" setting. On a few occasions, I have handled animals, but I make it very clear on Nature ID that I intruded on their space. I have also on at least 2 instances put insects into the fridge to cool them down enough to get a picture, and those, too, were very obvious (http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/07/giant-western-crane-fly-holorusia.html and http://natureid.blogspot.com/2010/07/edwards-glassy-wing-moth-hemihyalea.html).

http://www.thefreequark.com/2012/03/baiting-and-staging-nature-shots/
http://naturography.com/staging-photos/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2011/12/12/most-of-the-wildlife-photography-you-see-is-fake/
http://skepticalmoth.southernfriedscience.com/2011/08/genius-20/ (see #11, #21, and #25)


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