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提个建议：如果时间允许，能否把英文翻译下？毕竟这里不是每人都懂英文。
另：内容最好言简意赅。

我尝试过 工作量实在太大了 而我的英语水平也是有限的

其实 我是一边 translate.google.cn 一本 牛津英汉大辞典 慢慢看完的。。

我尽量争取将全文大意翻译给大家吧

如果真的把自己整的太累 我怕我真的坚持不了太久。

我想尽可能的保持轻松愉快的心情 完成这项庞大的任务。

呵呵量力而行

支持，楼主辛苦了，因为内容太多，希望楼主能精简一些！！！！

谢谢关注 我已经在尝试这样去做了 尽可能的简洁 尽可能的挑出作者的主要内容 并且 凡是中文译文都将以红色标示 以便区分 阅读 ok 下面就开始继续吧


The Internet is my first port of call when researching a project or assignment. It is an essential tool, but must be used wisely to obtain useful and reliable information.

因特网是当我开始研究一个项目或者任务时第一个要用到的工具，但是一定要善加利用才能得到真正有效和有用的信息

Networking with peers and others in associated professions
also helps. For example, a few years ago, while photographing
brown bears, I spent some time working with a biologist
in Alaska.

通过网络和同行及其它专业的专家交流也是很有益的，就拿我几年前一次拍摄棕熊的经历来说吧，我就曾经和一位生物学专家一起在阿拉斯加共同工作过一段时期。

We became good friends and that friendship has
enabled me to work with other biologists in other specialty
fields and geographic locations, without whom my assignments
would have been far more difficult to complete.

我们成了非常要好的朋友，这使我有机会涉足他的研究领域，没有他的帮助，我想我的任务将会很难完成。

In many ways the process is identical to that of any business
venture—it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
Great nature images rarely happen by chance. It’s not a
question of aimlessly wandering the globe hoping to bump
into a compelling scene. Trusting to luck will only end in


我想这是一条任何行业都通用的规则：“成败的关键并不在于你知道多少 而在于你认识多少人！”

精彩的自然影像绝少是碰运气得到的 漫无目的的游荡是找不到精彩的场景的。





My good friend and colleague, Chris Morgan, a bear specialist, escorts photographers
in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Working with experts such as Chris
has enabled me to capture better images more efficiently.

图片注：我的好朋友和同事，Chris，一个棕熊专家，阿拉斯加Katmai国家公园的摄影向导，和Chris这样的专家一起合作，可以使我有更多的机会拍摄到更好的图像。

disappointment (and commercially, in no future work). Nor
is the belief that the grass is greener elsewhere the secret to
success. Just because Africa is abundant in exotic species and
habitats doesn’t mean that you’ll capture the image of a lifetime
simply by hopping on a flight and tromping through
the bush. So, lesson number one is: Get into the habit of
researching your photographic trips, however short or local,
and you will find that you achieve better images, more often
and, importantly, more consistently.


全凭运气的话最终只会让你失望。虽然非洲是个物种资源丰富的地方，但是这并不意味着你仅凭一次穿越灌木从林的旅行就可以捕捉到完美的影像。所以第一课的内容就是：

养成研究你的摄影旅行的习惯，尽管有时候只能花很少的时间，而且是很片面的，但是你会发现这样你才能拍到更多、更好、更一致(?)的图像。

KNOW YOUR SUBJECT

清楚你的主题

Ninety percent of my job is biology, and 10 percent is photography.
But what exactly does that statement mean? Let me
give you an example: When photographing wildlife action, if
I were to wait and react to events, by the time my brain had
initiated a “press shutter now” command and my finger had
actioned it, and the shutter in the camera had actually fired,
whatever it was I had been photographing would have long
since happened and passed. This is because human reactions
are, in reality, incredibly slow.

我90%的身份是生物学家，剩下10%的身份才是摄影师。这是什么意思呢？


让我先给你举个例子：当我在拍摄野生动物的时候，如果我正处在等待拍摄的状态中时，当我的大脑发出一个指令：“现在 该拍了”然后我的手指才开始按下快门。这就已经浪费了很多时间了，而最佳的拍摄时机往往已经错过了，事实上，人的反应往往是相当相当的慢的。


The solution is to predict the shot and to have the camera
framed and ready for the image that’s about to happen,
rather than reacting to events. It’s much like clay pigeon
shooting: The weapon is aimed not at the clay but ahead of
it, so it’s the clay that hits the shot and not the other way
around. When photographing wildlife, then, I am anticipating
what is about to happen and composing my image based
on predicted scenarios.


问题的解决方法是：提高拍摄前的预判能力。这有点像打飞碟运动。运动员在飞碟打靶时瞄准的不是飞碟，而是飞碟即将飞到的地方。当我在拍摄野生动物的时候，在构图和即将拍摄前，我会有一个拍摄前的预判。


It’s only possible to achieve this if
you know enough about your subject—in particular, behavior
and body language—that you are able to second-guess it.
And that knowledge comes from a rudimentary understanding
of biology.


解决这个办法的唯一出路就是彻底了解你的拍摄对象。特别是透过行为和肢体语言来理解它们的行为。这就需要你对生物学有一个基本的了解。


As an example, let me refer back to my bear biologist friend.
The first time we worked together was many years ago

再举一例：

就以前文提到过的那个熊类生物学专家朋友来说吧，上次我和他在很多年前第一次合作的时候——








Get into the Habit: Research
Another National Geographic staff photographer, Joel Sartore,
explains how he researches an assignment: “I get lots of help from
scientists and experts who know the subject I’m working with, people
who live in the areas I’ll be working in, and people who have
worked with a subject or area previously. A lot of time is spent
locating books or magazine articles, hunting down phone numbers
and doing the several dozen other tasks that go along with putting
story research together. The way I research is to read up on a
topic, find out who I need to talk with to learn more, and then make
phone calls. Talking to those in the know is one of the best ways to
prepare.”


养成良好的习惯：研究

Joel Sartore --另一位国家地理摄影师解释了他是怎样研究一个课题的：“我先是从那些了解这个课题的科学家和专家那里寻求帮助，然后再伺机从当地人那里了解信息，并与那些曾经在那个地区拍摄过那个主题的人取得联系，其余的很多时间我主要是来研究一些介绍当地的书籍或者杂志，记下电话号码，和那些能够提供更多信息的人取得联系，和这些了解情况的人谈话往往是前期准备中最佳的解决方案”

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嗯 有大家的鼓励 我也就有十足的干劲了 今天把5页的目标完成 如果在上述翻译中有重大译文错误 也希望大家不吝赐教 以便完善整个教程

during my first experience photographing brown bears. We
were standing in the middle of Brooks River in Katmai
National Park, surrounded by bears. Chris, the biologist, was
carefully watching the signals the bears were giving via their
body language. Then he whispered to me, “That bear at 2
o’ clock will leap for a salmon in three seconds.” I looked at
him with raised eyebrow and skepticism. He returned my
look with a knowing smile. Lo and behold, right on cue, the
bear leaped, water splashed and a salmon became lunch. I
missed that shot but I never doubted him again.

(接上文：就以前文提到过的那个熊类生物学专家朋友来说吧，上次我和他在很多年前第一次合作的时候——)

在我第一次有拍摄棕熊经验的时候。我们当时正站在Katmai国家公园中Brooks湖的中游，四周都有熊，chris，生物学家，正在观察熊透过肢体语言传达的信号。然后他悄悄地对我说：“两点钟方向的那头熊在三秒钟内将咬住一只跃起的大马哈鱼”他很神秘的带着微笑对我说。果然，不出所料 熊张开大嘴 水花四溅 并且大马哈鱼即将成为午餐。我失去了这一次机会，也从此再不怀疑他说的每一句话。



图注
My early skepticism about the ability to tell the future by reading body language
was quickly dispelled. I now use this technique to capture all my fast-action
shots of wildlife.

对于透过肢体语言可以预测未来这件事我原先是持怀疑态度的，但是现在我彻底相信了。我现在经常用这个技巧来抓拍野生动物。

这个要顶，感谢楼主！

Since then, although I rely heavily on the information provided
by biologists and researchers, I pay close attention to
animal behavior.

打那以后，我经常依靠来自生物学家和研究者的提供相关信息，我开始密切关注动物的行为。

I do a lot of reading in the office of works
such as The Secret Language and Remarkable Behaviour of
Animals by Janice Benyus, and Safari Companion by Richard
D. Estes.


我经常在办公室里研究像《动物的密语 与 标志性 行为》
（by Janice Benyus, and Safari Companion by Richard
D. Estes. ）这类的书。

More importantly, I spend time in the field watching
wildlife to learn habits and traits that reveal important
clues about how animals behave.

更重要的是我养成了仔细观察动物行为特点的习惯，这些行为习惯往往能揭示一些非常重要的线索。

For instance, I was photographing
in Kruger National Park when I noticed a particular
species of duck that, when feeding, would bob under
the water. I fired a few practice shots but in all of them,
my reactions were never quick enough to capture an image
with a duck’s head breaking the water. The head was always
submerged.


举例来说，当我在Kruger 国家公园观察并拍摄一种特殊品种的鸭子时。当鸭子进食时，头会潜入水中。我尝试着拍了一些照片，但是，因为我的反应不够快，我拍摄的照片大都是鸭子脑袋潜入水中的照片。都没有抓拍到鸭嘴刚好接触到水那一刹那的瞬间。

So, I put down the camera and watched. After a couple of
minutes I noticed that, just prior to diving, the birds would
wiggle their feathery bums. This was the clue I needed.
I picked up the camera and composed the image.


于是，我放下相机开始观察。也就过了两分钟吧，我观察到就在鸭子即将潜水的前一刻，它会先摇摇它屁股上面的羽毛。这就是我需要的线索，于是我拿起相机，并且准备好构图。
Then I waited, watching for the signal. At the moment my chosen
subject wiggled its bum, I pressed the shutter. This time the
image was in the bag.

然后我就开始等着，观察那个信号。我选择鸭子在摇动尾巴上的羽毛的时候作为时机按下快门。于是我就拍到了我所需要的画面。

非常好！支持