“How do I make my subject pop out of the frame and blur the background?” This must be one of the most common questions that I gets asked on courses and workshops and for good reason. A shallow DoF, that blurs the background, is an amazingly powerful way to create striking images. Check out this [...]
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Size Tells the Story
Photography is about telling a story and sharing your vision. Check out the below image. Nikon D3s, Nikon 300mm VR II, 1/400, f/4, ISO 320 The image might require a second look, but the story is obvious. A brand new rhino with it’s mom. The idea, in a story like this, is to convey size. [...]
Wildlife Photography – Tell Your Story
Photography is about sharing the beauty of nature. About telling a story. The difficulty is to tell your story in one frame. How do you include everything in just one frame? Most of the time it is virtually impossible to tell the whole story in one single photograph. You will normally have to choose a [...]
Daily Photo: A Rhino Story
A Rhino Story Madikwe Game Reserve, 16 August 2010, 16h08 Nikon D300, Nikon 80-200 @ 100mm, 1/1600, f/5.6, ISO 320 ___________________________ It’s been a great week for photographing rhino so here goes with another one. We spent Monday afternoon photographing around one of pans in Madikwe. There were to rhino taking turns drinking from a [...]
Shoot a Story
A big shout out to Morkel Erasmus for his guest post yesterday. Some amazing images and it’s great to see all the positive comments. If you have not yet check it out click here and then leave Morkel a comment with your thoughts! Great post! As I was looking through Morkel’s images and some of [...]
