Get Low for Wildlife Photos
Wednesday 1 October 2025, 14:41 by Elja Trum | 1,834 views | 2 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
In this video, wildlife photographer Peter Bredahl Dam gives you useful tips for taking better wildlife photos. For example, he shows you how much difference a lower position makes to your photos.
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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2 comments
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Peter Heins wrote on Wednesday 1 October 2025 at 15:26 | replyUseful tip. I’ll use it next week when I go out with my "new"Canon EF f4-5.6 100-400mm IS L II USM( the RF was still too expensive for my budget) in the Amsterdamse Waterleiding dunes for the deer rut.
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jo vp wrote on Tuesday 7 October 2025 at 17:56 | replyThat is indeed advisable and feasible in our low countries where there are virtually no predators present in the wild, but in many nature parks (e.g. in Africa, Canada, ...) you are not even allowed to leave your vehicle because of the aforementioned.
Translated from Dutch.
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