Wildlife portraits

Best equipment:35 mm SLR with a telephoto lens in the 300-600 range, a 1.4 or 2X teleconverter for adjusting subject matter, and as always, a steady tripod or beanbag depending on your shooting location. The paragraph next discusses how a photographer should be cery aware of the approach one takes towards wildlife. Even though park wildlife are more adapt to tourists and photographers etc., they are still WILD-life. If you break the comfort zone established between the animals and humans and the animal decides to attack or even scare you or the people around you, new rules and regulations may be formed to prevent future occurences, and you don't want to be responsible for ruining it for everyone. Also, avoid "nesting" areas, or places where the animals keep their young, even though it may help you attain a great photograph. If you are caught lurking near an animals offspring, the anial may do one of three things: attack you, leave the area and abandon its children, or disregard your presence. Either way, you wouldn't want to risk it!
Telephoto advantage: "Its relatively shallow depth of field permis ready blurring of distracting elements not crucial to subject developent, which accentuates by contrast the sharpness and importance of the center of interest."
Set up a three-layer photograph.
Three layers consist of a foreground, middle ground and back ground. The foreground should depict the animal's environment and is usually blurred to avoid distracting from the image itself. The middle ground should contain some parts of the foreground and generally the subject matter or animal. The background should contain visual image that stretches to the borders of the picture and has lack of detail.
As sad as it is to admit, we are a culture that thrives on beauty even when it comes to animals. Take this into account when you are shooting wildlife because a picture of a scragily deer, no matter how great the photo is, will not have the best chances of selling. Shoot appealing and intersting animals that attract interst. Also, even though it may be nearly impossible for one to get the whole face in focus, at least aim to focus the eye. This clear eye will be a pulling factor for grabbing someone's attention and keeping it.
Shooting more than one animal at a time can be rather risky simply because it adds one more area of interst and another object that you will have to be aware of. Do not let one out show the other but instead show the two in a way that they can work together!