Prairie Dog Party and Landscape Photography in Bad Weather At Badlands National Park Settings Tips

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On day one of our time in Badlands National Park, we ran into inclament weather. It was cloudy, cold, windy, and not ideal to do any photography for landscape.
However, this provided great cover and lighting to do some photography of animals.
In this video, we capture some Bison and the fun of the Prairie Dogs at Roberts (of all things) Prairie Dog town!
What a great time we had just enjoying the little rodent antics.
I hope you will enjoy this video and the scenery we were able to capture. If you are a photography beginner, looking for photo settings and tips, there are plenty in this video. I hope you find it helpful as you learn more about photography.
The weather was bad, but we made the absolute best of it as we could.
You can see the entire image set from this photo shoot at my website in the blog at
www.raphotog.com/blog/prairie-dogs-on-parade

Equipment List
Camera
Nikon D500 DSLR Camera https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A7Q0J3Y
Trail Lens Sigma 18-35 1.8 Art for Crop Sensor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NUHDCG4
Portrait and Nature Macro Lens Sigma 70-200 2.8 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MKP6RGH
ND Filter Breakthrough Photography 72mm X4 6-Stop ND Filter https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SOZH3IA
ND Graduated Filters Cokin P Series (I am upgrading soon to larger sizes) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HMWKUBW
Camera Backpack for Day work Lowepro Fastpack BP250 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U3TQR6O
Tripods
Travel Tripod TYCKA Rangers 56” Travel tripod https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IUO068S
For Heavy Duty Work Slik Heavy Duty Trigger Release Tripod Ball Head (You still need the tripod) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000H46O4U

Camera Bag Backpack Insert https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0763V22ZY
Filter Holder https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00796D03C
LED Lights
NEWER CN 216 LED https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FJ0RGD0
NEWER CN 160 LED https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004TJ6JH6
Battery Packs https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079F9TX4V

Microphones
Lavalier https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MRMU2HU
Trail Mic Rode Video Micro https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015R0IQGW
Hiking
Osprey Aether AG 70 https://www.osprey.com/us/en/product/aether-ag-70-AETHER70.html
Hyke and Byke Yosemite https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CPDXJ7
Hyke and Byke Zion https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CPM57Q
Nemo Tensor Sleeping Pad https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MTTJWBG
Trekology Pillow https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MQJPVWD
Helinox Ultralight Chair https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M07GTOE
Camp Stove Backpack Style https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZA39W6U
Drone
Mavic Mini https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Mavic-Mini-FlyCam-Quadcopter/dp/B07RQJHG8M