Light can make all the difference! Yeah yeah I know. The above statement is stating the obvious but even if you know it, like most of us do, every once in a while nature just proves the point again. On Monday I was with a private photography client in Madikwe. As we sat watching a [...]
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Metering – The Basics
For many new photographers, and quite a few not so new photographers, metering is one of the most difficult photographic terms to wrap their head around. The short version is that the metering mode you choose will affect how the camera calculates the exposure of an image. These days most cameras are very good at [...]
Shooting a Cub at 6400
A few weeks ago I was blown away by the low light abilities of the Nikon D3s. In this blog I showed an image I took with D3s and how little digital noise there is when using this beast of a camera. Even up to 8000 ISO the RAW image quality, out of camera, was [...]
Winter Morning Magic
I love winter in the bush. Apart from all crisp mornings, animal activity around watering holes and red wine the light for wildlife photography is phenomenal. With the sun spending more time close to the horizon the quality and quantity of light is so much better than the harsh summer afternoons. Combined with moody, dusty [...]
Shooting More Than You Can See
You can only shoot what you see. This is something I have been saying for quite some time and most definitely something I still believe is true. However, the digital technology of today has changed things slightly. Check this out. Yeah, it’s a pretty decent image of a lion in the wild and one that [...]
