Your Subject is Not Your Subject

[Keith_Bauer]

Nice Article with a concept that I completely agree with and have been pushing for some time.

In April of 2020, I wrote this article for NPN pushing the same concept with an emphasis on Avian photography.

Including the Environment - Context Matters

Originally published at: https://www.naturephotographers.network/including-the-environment/ When I first took an interest in photographing wildlife, and specifically birds, the mental model of the shot I wanted to capture was modeled after the images I’d see in bird ID books. That meant great detail in the plumage, nice view of the important identification parts of the specific species, and of course, frame-filling. It just didn’t seem right if the image didn’t fill the frame in the viewf…