Rainforrest photos

[iluv2fly1]

I just got back from a trip that involved taking a lot of photos of different types of wildlife.

I know a lot of wildlife photography is luck, patience and the length of your lens as well as just taking a lot and deleting the rest, but I think I could have done better with better settings.

In particular I found that some of the photos I really wanted to work out were not that great because of unexpected movement causing blurring or changing the composition, dappling from the sun, or noise because the rainforrest wasn't exactly the best lighting and then there were plenty of photos that I just simply missed because I was way too slow.

One example is this photo that I love, but I just think it doesn't draw the eye in quite the right way, -but he wasn't staying still to give me a chance to try some different settings or angles.

So my questions are:
1. How should I prepare the settings to make the best photos in cases when things can change quite quickly? -animals move from sunny spots to dark spots, go from still to moving and so on.
2. When you know you don't have great lighting, what sort of things can you do to try to make the best of a bad situation?



Canon EOS 1100D
1/250
f/5.6
ISO 800

[Chuckie17]

Funny photo! Love his expression.