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Wildlife Photography Tips I Wish I Had Known When I Visited South Africa

by Luke Walker

Being out in nature with wild animals can be an exhilarating sensation, and understanding these handy wildlife photography tips will ensure that you get much more interesting pictures.Twelve useful techniques for capturing a fantastic wildlife shot are here:

1.) You need to put in the effort. You may not get a great shot even on a day when you're lucky enough to see various animals.

2.) Use a wider angle lens to get a picture of the animal in the natural environment instead of just the picture of the animal's head. Often people come home from a day out and all they have are lots of headshot photos.

3.) It isn't the best idea to always place your animal in the centre of the picture. Hold your point of focus and place the animal into a point of thirds in your frame facing into the frame or across the frame. It helps to tell a story to add more interest to people who see the final shot.

4.) To approach a shoot, get your camera and when you arrive, stop the engine to stop the pictures becoming soft from the vibrations. Occasionally the animal will run off when you stop the engine.

5.) What's in the background? The background will determine how well the photo turns out. You need to compose it as well as possible

6.) If you have a central sensor on the animal, most people focus on the animal's nose, and the depth of field will be so shallow that the animal's eyes are not in focus. Instead, focus your focus point on the eye of the animal, then recompose and place the animal in the frame where you want it to be, then take the photo.

7.) Have a look at each corner of your frame to make sure there is nothing distracting in the shot.

8.) If you're planning to do a close up portrait of the animal, it's best to use a shallow depth of field and focus right on the eye.

9.) If you're taking photos of an animal in a landscape, use a point of thirds.

10.) Try to get hold of the best lens possible. A good fast lens is of most importance. It is worth getting a better lens before a better camera.

11.) When you're working with a longer lens, support it as much as you can with a tripod. If not, try using a bean bag if you're in a vehicle. You can get fairly small bean bags that are made especially for this purpose that you can find in camera shops and in online stores such as Amazon.

12.) Try working with something like a Manfrotto 35 clamp because open game drive vehicles usually have bars that you can clamp onto. You could also use a ball head or Gimble head on top of it and this will allow you to support your long lens very well on a game drive vehicle. By using a ball head you will be able to pan from the back or side of a vehicle so if there are animals running or chasing other animals you can pan with them as they go and this enables you to get brilliant pictures.

So now that you've been armed with this information, So now that you know all of this stuff, get out there and get some fantastic shots of wildlife!



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