Dennis is one of Canada’s best-known wildlife and nature photographers. Although Dennis has travelled extensively in Canada and the USA, his real passion has been for the North. A love of birds led Dennis to begin capturing on film the species he had been admiring through his binoculars. It didn’t take long for him to discover that a 105mm lens wasn’t going to cut it for wildlife!
Dennis has made at least 50 trips to Churchill, Manitoba and other points on Hudson Bay and the sub-arctic in pursuit of images that would satisfy his vision. Although polar bears have been his favourite subject, many other animals, birds and landscapes make up his portfolio.
Dennis has been the sole or principal photographer for several books, including “Wapusk: White Bear of the North,”; “The Land Where the Sky Begins,” a book about North America’s endangered tall grass prairie and “Wild West: Nature Living on the Edge,” plus 5 other books.
In Dennis’s course at Niagara School, you will have 3 sojourns out into the wilds of the Niagara Escapement as well as in classroom enhancement of your images.
You will explore the effect that different kinds of light have on various nature subjects, always keeping wildlife in mind. Dennis will share his techniques for getting close to wildlife ranging from camouflage to careful stalking and even voice calling: “Here kitty, kitty, works for polar bears every time”!
A wildlife photographer needs many tricks to get and keep wildlife within photo range, and you will discover it is very different for unique species. There are, however, some techniques that are paramount for a wildlife photographer that not everyone knows about.
Dennis will lead you through dynamic compositions by sharing the viewfinder of his camera and you will be encouraged to do the same. All aspects of what makes a great nature photograph will be discussed, both in the classroom and in the field, and you will learn how to use Lightroom and Photoshop (including plug-ins) to help capture what you saw and felt at the moment of exposure. Different lenses and their usefulness in nature and wildlife photography will also be discussed.
Dennis will also show you how you can make a great portfolio of your wildlife images in book form using popular internet book-making software. In the same vein, he will show you how to combine images with music to produce stunning visual shows that will wow your audiences instead of putting them to sleep!
Be prepared to participate, to have fun, and to learn how to make great nature and wildlife images
To find out more about Dennis Fast’s course at the Niagara School of Imaging – Wild About Wildlife and Staying Alive – click here
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