Wild Animals From Up Close: 60 Portraits By This Photographer
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All of Pedro’s photographs have a signature look. We asked the artist about how it’s created: “My job requires a lot of patience and a bit of luck. Working with animals can be very rewarding, but also frustrating at times. You have to know how to wait and be very attentive. Ideally, I would like to work in a photographic studio where you have control of the light and black background, and some control over the animal, but it is very difficult or even impossible to get huge or dangerous animals into a real studio.
However, there are other methods to obtain the same result without disturbing them. The first may be to have the animal in front of a cave or natural dark background, although this is not very common. The second method is to use artificial light such as one or several flashes and achieve the dark background with a particular technique in the camera, and the last method is to darken the background or ‘burn’ it in postproduction.
For small animals, such as amphibians or reptiles, for example, it is more feasible to work in a photographic studio. In any case, the ideal is not to disturb the animal, as this will result in more natural behaviors and poses.
All of Pedro’s photographs have a signature look. We asked the artist about how it’s created: “My job requires a lot of patience and a bit of luck. Working with animals can be very rewarding, but also frustrating at times. You have to know how to wait and be very attentive. Ideally, I would like to work in a photographic studio where you have control of the light and black background, and some control over the animal, but it is very difficult or even impossible to get huge or dangerous animals into a real studio.
However, there are other methods to obtain the same result without disturbing them. The first may be to have the animal in front of a cave or natural dark background, although this is not very common. The second method is to use artificial light such as one or several flashes and achieve the dark background with a particular technique in the camera, and the last method is to darken the background or ‘burn’ it in postproduction.
For small animals, such as amphibians or reptiles, for example, it is more feasible to work in a photographic studio. In any case, the ideal is not to disturb the animal, as this will result in more natural behaviors and poses.
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13 July 2022
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