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In contrast, PIR sensors are one-piece units that detect changes in heat across a broad area.

Unlike the skittish foxes Ive encountered in the Lower 48, these animals were bold and easy to camera trap.

I used a longer focal length than normal, 55mm on a crop sensor, to frame the fox against a mountain backdrop as it roamed the shores of Lake Nerka, Alaska.

The elusive nature of our subjects is what makes wildlife photography unique and exciting, but also immensely frustrating.

The solution to capturing our skittish subjects traditionally has been the use of telephoto lenses, which allow us to photograph animals from a distance.

While this technique is practical and clearly yields beautiful results, it also can limit creative options in terms of the species that we can photograph and the ways that we can portray them.

Traditional techniques require finding animals during the daytime and prevent us from using the focal lengths and lighting techniques available to other types of photography.

In these instances, remotely triggered cameras provide a powerful tool for capturing unique images of rarely seen wildlife.

This image shows the results from one of our first sets in the Washington Cascades.

Composited together are our test shot, a coyote, a deer mouse and a spotted skunk.

Neither of us has captured an image of a coyote since, except on the trail cameras we use for scouting.

I now can carefully compose a scene and even control how light spills through the environment and onto my subject.

I work like a studio portrait photographer, yet my subjects are elusive wildlife that I may never actually see with my own eyes.

For example, Ive never encountered a mountain lion, but Ive photographed many of them and spent lots of time thinking about how I want my rim lights to reflect off their shoulders.

If you want to give it a try, youll need the following gear.

For some reason, mirrorless cameras often fall short for one of these criteria and dont work for camera trapping even though their small size would be a real asset.

This range of focal lengths gives me extra depth of field that helps keep the subject in focus and provides a range of useful perspectives for environmental portraiture.

Since youll be shooting stopped down, even cheap kit lenses will perform just fine.

The only lenses I specifically avoid are those in the Canon STM line because they have issues with taking pictures immediately after the camera wakes from standby.

While I was doing my PhD research in Alaska, Id be out in the field collecting data all day, but there was enough light that I could go out after dinner and set camera traps until midnight on the streams near our camp.

A trail camera set in the area revealed multiple cougars had traveled through the area, but none came close enough to trigger my camera.

Instead, my camera captured a long-eared owl, framed against the lights of sprawling suburbs and airliners headed to Denver International Airport.

AIR sensors create a narrow beam between two units (similar to a garage door sensor) and trigger the camera when something intercepts the beam.

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