French photographer Xavier Hubert Brierre came up with a brilliant way to lure out wildlife and see their reactions.
He and his wife set up several large mirrors in the jungle, to see how different animals would react to seeing themselves for the first time.
The results are amazing! And this would be such a fun experiment for all wildlife photographers. You don’t have to be in the jungle to do this, and you may not need as large a mirror as they are using in this video.
Have you tried something similar? We’d love to hear about it in the comments below!
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I think you mean bait
I didn’t actually ‘bait’ a sight.. but I did use a bad situation to my advantage. I was at Reelfoot lake trying to shoot the Eagles who winter there. (who for the entire morning seemed to be on the trees in the middle of the lake.. and I think they were shooting raspberries at me).. while driving around, I spotted a freshly road-killed squirrel (still flopping… hey it wasn’t me who ran him over). I went over to the side of the road and set up my blind and put on my 200 mm lens.. within about fifteen minutes an eagle came along and noticed the free snack. It was about the only good shots I got that day of an eagle. Baiting and feeding the Eagles is illegal, but taking advantage of a situation like this isn’t.
What is “Bate”
Isn’t that the guy, Norman, from Psycho?
I’ve used cheerios to lure a snapping turtle before.
With or without milk & sugar?
Now see I thought this story was going to be about: “Common Household Items that Could Give You The BEST Wildlife Images Of Your Life” I was pretty sure the Photographer was using a camouflage painted coffee can as part of his lens and I defiantly wanted to know how he made it and… what other common items he used to take the BEST images. j/k (hey it was a funny thought in my head) :o)
interesting how the Chimps actually start making funny things in the mirror jsut like little kids do!
The use of mirrors is good for only biology experiments and should not be used, in fact baiting should not be used either. A dead animal already there is fine to set up on but placing food (and worse mirrors) creates an in natural environment. That aside I prefer to make shots as natural as possible or not at all and leave (metaphorically) without having left a footprint. PS the animals faced with images of themselves behave quite differently and who knows the long term results