Art's Cameras Plus
Blog Layout

How to Shoot: Fine-Art Wildlife and Nature

Aug 18, 2021

Alyce Bender is known for her passion for biodiversity, vulnerable species, and environmental awareness, all documented through her carefully captured images. But though you’ll find many traditional nature and wildlife photos in her portfolio, Alyce also enjoys creating abstract and impressionistic imagery that taps into a different side of her brain.

“Instead of simply taking a photo of a crane in flight, for example, I’ll try to create the visual personification of that,” she says. “In other words, I want you to feel that emotion you feel when you see the crane in flight, or two rivers coming together. I want you to puzzle over the image a bit and let your brain create a story to accompany it.”

To take the photos for these particular collections, Alyce uses the Tamron 150-600mm VC G2 telephoto zoom. “This lens gives me the reach I need to focus in on areas of detail, texture, and movement, for both my traditional nature and wildlife photos and for my fine-art work,” she says. “Its versatility is a huge draw for me. I’ll often get bored while sitting around waiting for wildlife to show up to photograph. It’s amazing that I don’t even have to switch lenses to switch gears and create my more abstract work.”

Alyce tries to keep her fine-art images as simple and minimalist as possible, without using filters or Photoshop to create the movement and blur in her photos. “It’s all done in-camera,” she says. “People already know what a bison, bear, or coastline filled with reeds looks like, so I want to present my subjects in a different way. It makes the viewer pause and think a little more about the image.”

 CLICK HERE to Read on for Alyce’s explainer on the thought process behind each piece created here with the 150-600mm G2 lens.

More Blog Posts

Capture Your Story

By ProMaster • 17 Apr, 2024
What do golf and photography have in common? A constant pursuit of the perfect shot, a sense of community, or maybe it's the love for being outdoors. When you break it down, they are more similar than not. Each medium comes with its own stories and when you combine them together, you really get something special. That's why we partnered up with Random Golf Club this past year to help get a community of like minded people together and have fun doing what they love. Random Golf Club? You may have seen a post or two about our collaboration with Random Golf Club and were intrigued by who they are. If you are completely new to their brand, they are an amazing group of people led by the one and only, Erik Anders Lang. They set out to reshape the narrative of golf with the goal of making it a fun and accessible sport for all by building a community of like minded individuals. It doesn't take long to get the sense that they are a brand that believes in the power of storytelling and the impact it can have. CREATIVE SPOTLIGHTS What do golf and photography have in common? A constant pursuit of the perfect shot, a sense of community, or maybe it's the love for being outdoors. When you break it down, they are more similar than not. Each medium comes with its own stories and when you combine them together, you really get something special. That's why we partnered up with Random Golf Club this past year to help get a community of like minded people together and have fun doing what they love. Random Golf Club? You may have seen a post or two about our collaboration with Random Golf Club and were intrigued by who they are. If you are completely new to their brand, they are an amazing group of people led by the one and only, Erik Anders Lang. They set out to reshape the narrative of golf with the goal of making it a fun and accessible sport for all by building a community of like minded individuals. It doesn't take long to get the sense that they are a brand that believes in the power of storytelling and the impact it can have.

Introduction to Manual Exposure

By Brogan Quick • 27 Jul, 2023
Adapted from ProMaster website. CLICK HERE for complete article.

Tips for Photographing Fall Colors from Tamron

By Alyce Bender • 21 Oct, 2021
Tips for Photographing Fall Foliage Featuring Alyce Bender  Fall provides us the opportunity to capture stunning landscapes with bold colors, but only for a short period of time. We have asked Tamron Pro Ambassador Alyce Bender to share some of her top tips for photographing fall foliage. To see more of Alyce Bender's work, visit her website: https://www.abenderphotography.com/ .
More Posts
Share by: