Nature photography is a photographic genre that focuses its attention on nature. It includes both the terrestrial landscape (see photo on the side) and the astronomical one (for what it is possible to shoot in the sky) as well as the underwater one and of course all the fauna and wild flora immersed in its natural environment, arriving at the smallest and most concentrated macro shooting, mostly meaning subjects commonly visible more or less even to the naked eye.

Description:

The purpose of this photographic genre is to show the intrinsic beauty of nature, for which both particular or specific techniques and equipment are used, such as photographic traps.

Due to its wide-ranging characteristics, naturalistic photography can also incorporate other photographic genres or covalent techniques such as observation (birdwatching), as long as the shots have been carried out in an honest and respectful way for the environment, i.e. that they represent the unperturbed natural state.

Practitioners:

Nature photography is practiced by both documentary professionals and amateur photographers. In any case it requires a lot of patience and expertise to obtain good results, in fact it is necessary to know both the natural environment in which one operates, and the habits of the fauna that inhabits it. The foresight in not influencing the environment with one's presence, especially for wildlife photography, and therefore in some cases looking for or waiting for the best events and moments for shooting without artificially inducing them, are all fundamental characteristics for this. photographic genre.

Due to the type of subjects treated and the nature of the generic nature photographer, we can speak of a particular ethics associated with this photographic genre which, through the dissemination of photographic shots, educates and sensitizes towards models of ecological awareness and responsibility towards the 'environment.