- Oh, what is it that?
- That's what I wanted, make him mad.
- He looks like he's dying again.
- There's no night vision goggles I got?
No flashlight, no nothing? (laughs)
(camera shutter clicks)
(tropical music)
- Hi, my name is Mercy Hasselblad,
I'm a wildlife photographer.
- My name's Cory Kennedy and I'm a wildlife photographer.
- Wildlife photography is basically going out in nature,
getting dirty, and waiting
for the right animal to come along. (laughs)
- When you work with wildlife,
it's really just knowing that they're wild animals,
but also being prepared as much as you can.
- I love being out and capturing them
in the beauty that I see
and being able to show that to other people.
- I'm hoping I do pretty well.
- Whoa, they're right there.
- Yeah, none of these Pokemon are any Pokemon I know.
Bringin' back so many feels, though.
- The animals are a lot closer than they usually are
and you see them right away,
which never happens when you're photographing
in the wild. (laughs)
- Moving is gonna be really hard just
to get an authentic look just because you really wanna
try and stay still, you want them to come to you.
- Ooh, a little thing came out. Hello!
The butterfly came right next to me.
- Wanna wake these guys up as bad as I can.
Just get something moving.
There we go, look at me baby, look at me.
- Always make sure when you photograph in the wild,
remember to look behind you.
'Cause sometimes things happen behind you
and if you're not looking, it's like a scary movie.
- That's gotta be a Pinser.
And that was always one of my favorite Pokemon. (laughs)
Trying to get, lure them out is usually
what you wanna do, right?
If I post up in a certain spot,
I'm just gonna sit there, have something coming by,
and usually I wanna work with a guide
or somebody who's gonna know the best places,
who's a little bit more local.
- Normally, when there's lots of animals around,
I don't look at my photos until I am done.
And in the intermission, I'll look at my photos.
- What I try and do, especially when taking photos,
I don't like to have centered stuff like this.
I like to be a little bit lower, especially down
in the, say, the grass or anywhere where I'd actually
be seeing them, just so I can get more
of that authentic, on-location sort of shot with them.
- Got a good one of that Wurmple, whatever his name is.
Hello, fishy, don't die on me.
He looks like he's dying again.
The little duckies are concerned.
- If I could stop right here, I would have stopped
right here and just sort of waited until he turned around,
try and got his attention.
You can get that nice frame up.
- The thing about photographing nature for me
is that once you get a good picture of something,
unless you see a picture that would beat that picture,
I don't ever need to take it again. (laughs)
- Especially when it comes to birds and animals
that are sort of predators,
you wanna have some bait out there to try
and draw them in and sorta have some camouflage.
And that's what usually draws them in
for that perfect portrait shot.
- Ooh, this is pretty.
There's a buffalo with a wreath in its hair.
I'm gonna try to get it get its head up.
We always gravitate towards photos
where we can see a being's eyes, though.
- Right there.
I want the person, when they see the photo,
for their eyes to sort of just naturally lead on
to a certain spot.
I did not know there was a memory.
Is there any way I can format real quick,
'cause normally you'd want a much larger memory card
for this kinda stuff.
There we go, last second.
There we go, that's the shot.
- So right now I'm selecting this one.
I wish the butterfly had been a little bit further up
into the corner, so we'd get some nice rule of thirds
or his wings had been expanded a little bit more.
But I can see the butterfly's body
and I can see most of the wings
and I can see some nice topography in the background.
The stream coming through is nice.
- So I think one of my favorite ones definitely
was probably one of the Hoothoots over here.
I know it's not gonna be the best
because it's gonna be kinda hard to see,
but if I had different settings or anything like that,
I'd really enjoy something like this.
If I could frame it up a little bit more
and sort of have the eyes of the viewer
go down to where his eyes are.
- I like this one.
It's a nice, strong pose for the Bouffalant
and he's framed nicely by the sign on one side
and the rock on the other, he's right in between.
I like the mountains in the background.
The horizon line just falls right along the rule
of thirds and his feet kinda fall
along the lower rule of thirds, which is nice.
- Now, one of the bigger ones that definitely turned
out pretty well, I would say, was some of these
over here of the Torterras.
I like something like this 'cause, forgot the name of it,
but basically it's a mathematical term
where basically it spirals it down
and you want the center of the attention on the bottom
third of the photos.
- I like this one 'cause they're both looking at me
and they're cute, it's very symmetrical.
They're both looked like they're smiling.
This was the first good picture that I liked of this guy.
I like how he's turning towards the camera,
like three quarters, you can kinda see the horn a little bit
and he's climbing up on the tree,
which I think is really cute.
- So I'm gonna go ahead and actually choose this one,
just because he's one of my favorite Pokemon.
I always loved him.
It's not framed the right way, as far as what I want.
I'd actually go vertical.
If I could've twisted it up, I'd be able
to get everything framed the way I need to,
especially with him zoomed in like.
- This one's an interesting picture.
It's not necessarily a kid-friendly picture (laughs)
but it's an interesting picture
because it's like the little ducklings
watching the fish struggle.
New record!
I liked that picture.
I would be proud of that picture,
if it was a real buffalo or whatever.
- I was surprised this guy didn't wanna move whatsoever.
Had he moved, I would have loved a charging shot even.
Any animal can just be there, sleeping, having fun.
But when you get them about to strike
or something like that, standing on their hind legs,
that's the cool stuff that I love.
We'll keep that one. We got the two gold stars.
- Cute, new record because of the size
of the Pokemon.
Has nice strong lines is what I would have said. (laughs)
- If this one, I would have twisted it just a little bit
so that way the aspect ratio was going more
towards ending where his face is, the one in the back,
that way, if I could have gotten his eyes open
even if it were just looking towards me a little bit,
that would have been amazing.
- I got a gold star!
I'm such a good photographer.
Well, if photographing wildlife was this easy,
I think more people would do it. (laughs)
- And the fact that I was able to really play this
and sort of see how it translates, you know,
the skills that I have from wildlife
and just regular photography into this,
I know everybody's gonna love it.
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